741-St Zachary begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Gregory III
1557-1st Covenant of Scottish Protestants form
1586-Sir Thomas Herriot introduces potatoes to England from Columbia
1639-1st Annulment by court decree passes
1676-Battle of Lund (Scanian War): Swedish army of 8,000 defeats much larger joint Danish/Dutch force of 13,000
1678-Edmund Halley receives MA from the Queen's College, Oxford
1685-Charles II bars Jews from settling in Stockholm, Sweden
1736-Astronomer Anders Celsius takes measurements that confirm Newton's theory that the earth was an ellipsoid rather than the previously accepted sphere
1775-First official US flag raised (Grand Union Flag) aboard naval vessel USS Alfred
1828-Andrew Jackson elected 7th US President
1833-Oberlin College in Ohio, the first truly coeducational college, opens
1847- Frederick Douglass publishes first issue of his newspaper "North Star"
1854- Eureka Stockade: In what is claimed by many to be the birth of Australian democracy, more than 20 goldminers at Ballarat, Victoria, Australia are killed by state troopers in an uprising over mining licences.
1863-Confederate General James Longstreet abandons his siege at Knoxville, TN
1866-Paid fire dept replaces volunteer companies
1868-1st blacks on US trial jury appointed for Jefferson Davis trial
1910-Neon lights first publicly displayed (Paris Auto Show)
1917-After nearly 20 years of planning and construction, the Quebec Bridge opens to traffic.
1922-First successful technicolor movie (Tall of the Sea), shown in NYC
1926-Detective novelist Agatha Christie mysteriously disappears for 11 days
1943-9th Heisman Trophy Award: Angelo Bertelli, Notre Dame (QB)
Battle of Monte Cassino, Italy begins
Howard Hanson's 4th Symphony premieres
1944-The Greek Civil War breaks out in a newly-liberated Greece, between communists and royalists.
Britain's Home Guard ('Dad's Army') is officially stood down at a special farewell parade in Hyde Park, London.
1948-1st US woman army officer not in medical corps sworn in
Don Bradman scores his last century, 123 in his own testimonial
Chinese refugee ship "Kiangya" explodes in E China Sea killing 1,100
1952-1st TV broadcast in Hawaii
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.