A Day to Remember

Wall Street bombing

Joseph Nicholson sets Francis Scott Key's "Star Spangled Banner" to music

Napoleon enters Moscow

World War II officially named

Nathan Hale volunteers for spy mission, American Revolution

The word "bug" is documented in use for the first time as a flaw in a computer system

Galveston hurricane

"Uncle Sam" becomes nickname for the United States

Barney Flaherty hired as first "newsboy"

Confederate army enters Kentucky, breaking neutrality

Vietnam declares independence

"Mother's Day Proclamation for Peace," Julia Ward Howe

William Cobb demonstrates solar powered car

Lea and Perrins Worcestershire sauce

Abdication of Charles V as Holy Roman Emperor

George Washington addresses Whiskey Rebellion

Children's Crusade by Nicholas of Cologne

Eruption of Mount Vesuvius

Tornado strikes Rochester, MN (aftermath leads to founding of Mayo Clinic)

Battle of Churrubusco, Mexican War

"Bonnie Prince Charlie" raises his standard at Glenfinnan, Scotland, beginning the rebellion of '45

Aaron Montgomery Ward introduces first mail order catalog for general public

First transatlantic hot air balloon flight

Paris requires registration/license plates for automobiles

Defeat of Penobscot Expedition, American Revolutionary War

Battle of Ascalon, end of First Crusade

First public roller rink opens

The Louvre opens as a public museum

Revolving door patented

Extortion 17 Incident, Afghanistan

Revenue Act of 1861 (first US income tax)

Battle of The Three Kings, Morocco

First letter written in English from North America

Southampton Plot against Henry V of England foiled

First meeting of Virginia Assembly

King Umberto I of Italy assassinated

Arrest of "man in the iron mask," France

US Department of Foreign Affairs created

Cartier claims Canada for France

Italy bans usage of foreign words

John Dillinger joins US Navy (1923); shot by FBI (1934)

First documented "wild west" gunfight

First Special Olympics

Romanov family executed, Russian Revolution

First paper banknotes introduced in Sweden

Final surrender of Napoleon I

John Adams signs Sedition Act

Henry Schoolcraft discovers source of Mississippi River

Vellore Mutiny, India

End of siege of Port Hudson, Civil War