1592: Magellen with Vittoria returns to Spain, after the first round world trip.
1622: Spanish silver fleet disappears off Florida Keys; 1,000s die.
1628: Puritans land at Salem, from Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1716: The first US lighthouse built (Boston).
1776: The first (failed) submarine attack (David Bushnell's "Turtle" attacks British sailboat "Eagle" in Bay of NY).
1819: Thomas Blanchard patents the lathe.
1861: Civil War: General Grant occupies Paducah Kentucky.
1862: Civil War: Stonewall Jackson occupies Frederick, Maryland.
1863: Civil War: After 59 day siege, Confederate troops vacate Fort Wagner SC (1700 casualties).
1869: The first westbound train arrives in San Francisco.
1901: President William McKinley, shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at Pan American Exposition in Buffalo NY, he dies 8th days later.
1913: The first aircraft to perform a loop (Adolphe P'goud-France).
1917: French pilot Georges Guynemer shoots down 54th German aircraft.
1939: Cherokee Nation forms.
1939: WWII: The first German air attack on Great-Britain.
1966: "Star Trek" premieres on NBC TV.
1970: Palestinians seize 3 jetliners.
1976: Russian pilot Belenko defects to Japan in a Mig 25 jet.
1997: Princess Diana's funeral.