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1492 Christopher Columbus learns of maize (corn) from the Indians of Cuba
1781 John Hanson elected 1st "President of the US in Congress assembled"
1811 El Salvador's 1st battle against Spain for independence
1838 Honduras declares independence of Central American Federation
1862 Abraham Lincoln removes George B. McClellan as commander of the Army of the Potomac
1872 Susan B Anthony fined $100 for trying to vote for Ulysses S Grant
1895 1st US patent granted for auto (George B Selden)
1911 C Rodgers arrives in Pasadena completing 1st transcontinental airplane flight (49 days)
1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) beats Theodore Roosevelt (Prog) & President Taft (R)
1914 France and the British Empire declare war on the Ottoman Empire
1917 Gen Pershing & US troops see action on Western Front for 1st time
1935 Parker Brothers launches game of Monopoly
1940 President FDR (D) wins unprecedented 3rd term beating Wendell Willkie (R)
1940 The British merchant cruiser, HMS Jervis Bay, sunk by the German battleship Admiral Scheer
1943 Bombing of the Vatican
1945 Colombia joins the United Nations
1946 John F Kennedy (D-MA) elected to House of Representatives
1950 The 27th British Commonwealth Brigade halted the advancing Chinese 117th Division
1964 US launches Mariner 3 toward Mars; no data returned
1967 ATS-3 launched by US to take 1st pictures of full Earth disk
1968 Nixon (R) beats VP Humphrey (D) & George C Wallace for Presidency
1974 Walter E Washington, becomes 1st elected mayor of Wash DC
1983 Orbiter Discovery (OV-103) moves overland to Dryden
1987 Iceberg twice the size of Rhode Island sighted in Antarctic
1988 Cornell confirms grad student source of worst computer sabotage
2007 Android mobile operating system is unveiled by Google
1492 Christopher Columbus learns of maize (corn) from the Indians of Cuba
1781 John Hanson elected 1st "President of the US in Congress assembled"
1811 El Salvador's 1st battle against Spain for independence
1838 Honduras declares independence of Central American Federation
1862 Abraham Lincoln removes George B. McClellan as commander of the Army of the Potomac
1872 Susan B Anthony fined $100 for trying to vote for Ulysses S Grant
1895 1st US patent granted for auto (George B Selden)
1911 C Rodgers arrives in Pasadena completing 1st transcontinental airplane flight (49 days)
1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) beats Theodore Roosevelt (Prog) & President Taft (R)
1914 France and the British Empire declare war on the Ottoman Empire
1917 Gen Pershing & US troops see action on Western Front for 1st time
1935 Parker Brothers launches game of Monopoly
1940 President FDR (D) wins unprecedented 3rd term beating Wendell Willkie (R)
1940 The British merchant cruiser, HMS Jervis Bay, sunk by the German battleship Admiral Scheer
1943 Bombing of the Vatican
1945 Colombia joins the United Nations
1946 John F Kennedy (D-MA) elected to House of Representatives
1950 The 27th British Commonwealth Brigade halted the advancing Chinese 117th Division
1964 US launches Mariner 3 toward Mars; no data returned
1967 ATS-3 launched by US to take 1st pictures of full Earth disk
1968 Nixon (R) beats VP Humphrey (D) & George C Wallace for Presidency
1974 Walter E Washington, becomes 1st elected mayor of Wash DC
1983 Orbiter Discovery (OV-103) moves overland to Dryden
1987 Iceberg twice the size of Rhode Island sighted in Antarctic
1988 Cornell confirms grad student source of worst computer sabotage
2007 Android mobile operating system is unveiled by Google