1709-English, Dutch and Austrians defeat French in Battle of Malplaquet
1814-Battle of Lake Champlain, NY; Americans defeat British
1853-First electric telegraph in use, Merchant's Exchange to Pt. Lobos
1875-First newspaper cartoon strip
1889-Start of the Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Crooked Man"
1910-First commercially successful electric bus line opens (Hollywood)
1919-U.S. marines invade Honduras
1922-British mandate of Palestine begins
1936-A's pitcher Horace Lisenbee gives up 26 hits in a game
1936-FDR dedicates Boulder Dam, now known as Hoover Dam
1941-Charles Lindbergh charges "the British, the Jewish and the Roosevelt administration" are trying to get the U.S. into WWII
1946-First mobile long-distance car-to-car telephone conversation
1952-West German Chancellor Adenauer signs a reparation pact for Jews
1961-Bob Dylan's first NY performance
1973-Chile's President, Salvador Allende, deposed in a military coup
1814-Battle of Lake Champlain, NY; Americans defeat British
1853-First electric telegraph in use, Merchant's Exchange to Pt. Lobos
1875-First newspaper cartoon strip
1889-Start of the Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Crooked Man"
1910-First commercially successful electric bus line opens (Hollywood)
1919-U.S. marines invade Honduras
1922-British mandate of Palestine begins
1936-A's pitcher Horace Lisenbee gives up 26 hits in a game
1936-FDR dedicates Boulder Dam, now known as Hoover Dam
1941-Charles Lindbergh charges "the British, the Jewish and the Roosevelt administration" are trying to get the U.S. into WWII
1946-First mobile long-distance car-to-car telephone conversation
1952-West German Chancellor Adenauer signs a reparation pact for Jews
1961-Bob Dylan's first NY performance
1973-Chile's President, Salvador Allende, deposed in a military coup
