1066 William the Conqueror has landed at Pevensey

1106 The Battle of Tinchebrai ends in defeat for Normandy's Robert Curthose at the hands of England's Henry I who has crossed the Channel and who takes his brother home in chains

1542 Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo discovers California, at San Diego Bay

1781 Siege of Yorktown begins, last battle of the Revolutionary War

1787 Congress sends Constitution to state legislatures for their approval

1850 Flogging in US Navy &on merchant vessels abolished

1858 Donati's comet becomes the first to be photographed

1867 Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario

1868 Battle of Alcolea, causes Queen Isabella 2 of Spain to flee to France

1868 Opelousas Massacre at St Landry Parish Louisiana (200 blacks killed)

1879 Sydney Australia innaugurates steam motor tram route

1895 Louis Pasteur chemist, scientist developed pasteurization process, rabies vaccination; died

1906 US troops reoccupy Cuba, stay until 1909

1912 "Kiche Maru" sinks off Japan, killing 1,000

1914 German forces move into Antwerp Belgium (WW I)

1918 Lt. Milton Fowler Gregg (Royal Canadian Regiment) wins the Victoria Cross at Cambrai, France

1922 Mussolini marches on Rome

1924 Two US Army planes end around-world flight, Seattle to Seattle, 57 stops

1928 Juan de la Cierva makes first helicopter flight over English Channel

1929 The Hudson Bay Railway reaches its northern terminus at Churchill, Manitoba. This was originally operated by Canadian National on behalf of the Government. It became part of the CN system on September 5, 1951.

1934 The Cunard-White Star Queen Mary launched at Clydebank

1937 FDR dedicates Bonneville Dam on Columbia River (Oregon)

1944 Battle of Arnhem, Germans defeat British airborne in Netherlands

1944 First TV Musical comedy (The Boys from Boise)

1944 Marines occupy islands in Palaus under cover of naval aircraft and gunfire support.

1948 WBAP-TV, (NBC affiliate) Fort Worth Texas, begins broadcasting

1950 3 RAR arrives in Korea

1958 Guinea votes for independence from France

1959 Explorer VI reveals an intense radiation belt around the Earth

1961 Syria withdraws from United Arab Republic

1961 USN Comdr Forrest S Petersen takes X-15 to 30,720 m

1963 Giuseppe Cantarella roller-skates a record 41.5 kph for 440 yds

1964 Australia beats US in first clay court Davis Cup

1964 First deployment of Polaris A-3 missile on USS Daniel Webster (SSBN 626) from Charleston, SC

1965 Jack McKay in X-15 reaches 90 km

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