682 – St Leo II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1180 – Yoritomo Minamoto leads uprising against Kiyomori Taira who installed his grandson, Emperor Antoku, to the throne
1563 – King Charles IX of France (13) declared an adult
1579 – Francois van Anjou visits English Queen Elizabeth I
1787 – Jews are granted permission in Budapest Hungary to pray in groups
1788 – Losant ville, OH (now Cincinnati) founded
1807 – Robert Fulton’s steamboat Clermont begins 1st trip up Hudson River
1808 – Napoleon asks King Louis for Holland brigade towards Spain
1819 – The Church Missionary Society establishes New Zealand’s second mission station at Kerikeri
1827 – Dutch King Willem I/Pope Leo XII sign concord
1834 – Charles Darwin reaches top of Campana Chile during his Voyage on the Beagle
1835 – Solymon Merrick patents wrench
1836 – British parliament accept registration of birth/marriage/death
1858 – 1st bank in Hawaii opens
1859 – 1st air mail (in a balloon) took off from Lafayette, Indiana
1869 – 1st international boat race (River Thames, Oxford beats Harvard)
1870 – 1st ascent of Mt Rainier, Washington
1870 – Mrs Esther Morris becomes 1st US woman magistrate (South Pass, Wyoming)
1877 – Asaph Hall discovers Mars’ moon Phobos
1879 – Ferdinand de Lesseps forms French Panama Canal Company
1891 – 1st public bath with showers opens in NYC (People’s Bath)
1891 – Electric self-starter for automobile patented
1897 – W B Purvis patents electric railway switch
1901 – The Royal Titles Act adds the words ‘and the British Dominions beyond the Seas’ to the monarch’s style
1904 – George H Reid succeeds John Watson as Prime Minister of Australia
1939 – “Wizard of Oz” opens at Loew’s Capitol Theater in NY
1942 – Task Force 17 leaves Pearl Harbor under Admiral George Murray on USS Hornet
1959 – 7.1 quake strikes Yellow stone National Park
1985 – Rajiv Gandhi announces Punjab state elections in India
1988 – NYC 1st case of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (9 year old Bronx boy)
1990 – “Exorcist 3” premieres
1999 – A 7.4-magnitude earthquake strikes İzmit, Turkey, killing more than 17,000 and injuring 44,000.
By Archa Deva
