On this day in history ..
- 1621 – Massasoit & Pilgrims agree on league of friendship (Plymouth)
- 1638 – Religious dissident Anne Hutchinson expelled from Mass Bay Colony
- 1733 – Joseph Priestly (father of soda pop) invents carbonated water
- 1765 – Britain enacts Stamp Act
- 1778 – Capt Cook sights Cape Flattery – in Wash state
- 1799 – F.W.A. Argelander – cataloguer of 324 -000 stars – dies
- 1820 – Stephen Decatur killed in a duel with Com James Barron
- 1882 – Congress outlaws polygamy
- 1894 – Montreal AAA beats Ottawa Capitals 3-2 & wins 1st Stanley Cup
- 1903 – NY Highlander (Yankees) tickets 1st go on sale
- 1929 – USCG vessel sank Canadian-reg schooner suspected of carrying liquor
- 1941 – Grand Coulee Dam in Wash went into operation
- 1945 – Arab League founded
- 1946 – Jordan (then Transjordan) gains independence from Britain
- 1957 – Earthquake gives SF shakes
- 1960 – AL Schawlow & C H Townes obtain patent for the laser
- 1963 – Beatles release 1st album – Please Please Me
- 1967 – Cassius Clay aka Muhammad Ali’s 1st MSG fight
- 1968 – Lynda Johnson ordered off Cable Car for eating an ice cream cone
- 1972 – Congress approves Equal Rights Amendment (never ratified)
- 1972 – Yankees trade Danny Cater to the Red Sox for Sparky Lyle
- 1975 – Walt Disney World Shopping Village opens
- 1977 – Indira Gandhi resigns as PM of India
- 1978 – Robert Frost Plaza – at Calif – Drumm & Market – dedicated
- 1979 – Israeli parliament approves peace treaty with Egypt
- 1981 – 1st class postage raised to 18? from 15?
- 1981 – Soyuz 39 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Mongolian) to Salyut 6
- 1982 – 3rd Space Shuttle Mission – Columbia 3 launched
- 1983 – Chaim Herzog elected Israeli pres
- 1984 – Islander Bryan Trottier ties NHL rec scores 5 seconds into game