1452 First book published, Johann Guttenberg's Bible

1630 First execution in America-J Billington hanged in Plymouth, MA

1659 Peter Stuyvesant of New Netherlands forbids tennis playing during Creligious services

1659 Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked (according to Defoe)

1777 Congress, flees to York Pa, as British forces advance

1791 Mozart's opera "The Magic Flute" premiers in Vienna

1809 The Treaty of Fort Wayne negotiated by Gen William Henry Harrison obtains 3 million acres of Indiana Territory Indian land on the Wabash River for the United States

1846 Anesthetic ether used for first time (Dr Wm Morton extracts a tooth)

1857 US occupies Sand, Baker, Howland and Jarvis Is. south of Hawaii

1867 Midway Islands formally declared a US possession

1877 First US amateur swim meet (NY Athletic Club)

1878 First Portuguese immigrants arrive in Hawaii

1880 Henry Draper takes that first photograph of the Orion Nebula

1885 Bechuanaland becomes a British protectorate

1887 Start of the Sherlock Holmes Adventure "The Five Orange Pips" (BG)

1887 Volunteer (US) beats Thistle (Scotland) in 8th America's Cup

1895 France proclaims a protectorate over Madagascar

1918 Lance Corporal E A Corey, a stretcher bearer with the 55th Battalion, wins a third bar to his Military Medal, first won on 15may1917 The winning of four Military Medals is a unique feat in the Australian Army or any other Commonwealth service

1918 Prv. James Crichton, 2nd Battalion, Auckland Infantry Regiment, won the Victoria Cross at Crevecoeur, France

1929 First manned rocket plane flight (by auto maker Fritz von Opel)

1934 FDR dedicates Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam)

1935 Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" premiers in Boston

1936 Intl Commission of the Straits (Dardanelles and Bosphorus) ends

1938 Munich Agreement-forced Czechoslovakia to give territory to Germany

1939 First televised college football game (Fordham vs Waynesburg at NYC)

1939 Germany and Russia agree to partition Poland

1941 3,721 Jews are buried alive at Babi Yar ravine (near Kiev) Ukraine

1944 Calais reoccupied by Allies

1946 22 Nazi leaders found guilty of war crimes at Nuremberg, Von Ribbentrop & Goering sentenced to death by Nuremberg trial

1949 Berlin Airlift ends after 277,000 flights

1950 First congress of Internat'l Astronautical Federation opens in Paris

1954 First atomic-powered vessel, submarine Nautilus launched

1955 James Dean actor and singer was killed in car crash

1960 Flintstones premiers (1st prime time animation show)

1960 On Howdy Doody's last show Clarabelle finally talks "Goodbye Kids"

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