1629 - An earthquake in Naples, Italy kills 10,000 people.
1729 - City of Baltimore founded
1733 - First Freemasons’s lodge is opened in what will become the United States.
1739 - Caspar Wistar begins glass manufacturing in Allowaystown, NJ
1792 - 500 Marseillaisian men sing France’s national anthem for 1st time
1825 - Malden Island is discovered.
1836 - 1st English newspaper published in Hawaii
1839 - Slave rebels, take over slaver Amistad
1866 - Race riot in New Orleans
1870 - Staten Island ferry “Westfield” burns, killing 100
1872 - Mahlon Loomis patents wireless telegraphy
1878 - German anti-semitism begins during the Reichstag election
1889 - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure “Naval Treaty” (BG)
1898 - Will Kellogg invents Corn Flakes
1905 - Dutch Covenant of Worker’s union, NVV, forms
1908 - Around the World Automobile Race ends in Paris
1909 - Wright Brothers deliver 1st military plane to the army
1913 - Conclusion of 2nd Balkan War
1928 - George Eastman shows 1st color motion pictures (US)
1930 - Uruguay beats Argentina 4-2 for soccer’s 1st World Cup in Montevideo
1932 - 10th modern Olympic games opens in Los Angeles
1933 - 28th Davis Cup: Great Britain beats France in Paris (3-2)
1935 - 1st Penguin book is published, starting the paperback revolution
1942 - FDR signs bill creating women’s Navy auxiliary agency (WAVES)
1948 - Emile Zatopek runs Olympic record (10K – 29:59.6)
1948 - Professional wrestling premieres on prime-time network TV (DuMont)
1955 - Louison Bobet wins his 3rd Tour de France
1956 - US motto “In God We Trust” authorised
1963 - British spy Kim Philby found in Moscow
1966 - Anniversary of England’s 4-2 World Cup final victory over West Germany at the old Wembley stadium
id="story">1999 - Â The worst blackout in Taiwanese history cuts off electricity to 7 million households — one-third of the island. id="story">2000 – North and South Korea announce they will reopen border liaison offices and reconnect a rail line linking the two countries. id="story">2008 - A team of European scientists unveils a new method for extracting images hidden under old masters’ paintings, recreating a colour portrait of a woman’s face unseen since Vincent van Gogh painted over it in 1887. id="story">2010 - President Nicolas Sarkozy says that he wants to revoke the French citizenship of immigrants who put the lives of police officers in danger as part of a “national war” on delinquency.Famous Birthdays
1818 - Emily Jane Bronte, Thornton England, novelist (Wuthering Heights), (d. 1848)
1863 - Henry Ford, Dearborn Township Michigan, industrialist and auto maker (Ford- model T), (d. 1947)
1872 - Clementine, Princess of Belgium, wife of Prince Napoleon Bonaparte
1919 - Berniece Baker Miracle, half-sister of Marilyn Monroe
1930 - Thomas Sowell, author/activist
1933 - Edd “Kookie” Byrnes, LA, actor (77 Sunset Strip, Jack the Ripper)
1934 - Andre Prevost, composer
1936 - George “Buddy” Guy, US blues guitarist (Stone Crazy)
1939 - Peter Bogdanovich, Kingston NY, director/producer (Last Picture Show)