1630

The city of Boston, Massachusetts is founded.

1778

1st treaty between the U.S. and Indian tribes signed (Fort Pitt).

1787

Members of the Constitutional Convention signed the final draft of the Constitution. Two days earlier, when a final vote was called, Edmund Randolph called for another convention to carefully review the Constitution as it stood. This motion, supported by George Mason and Elbridge Gerry, was voted down and the Constitution was adopted.

1789

William Herschel discovers Mimas, satellite of Saturn.

1819

1st whaling ship arrives in Hawaii.

1850

Great fire in San Francisco.

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1908

An airplane crashed during a demonstration in Arlington Heights, VA. Thomas Selfridge was killed, becoming the first person to be killed in an airplane accident. Orville Wright, the pilot, survived with multiple hip and leg fractures.

1926

Hurricane hits Miami and Palm Beach Florida; about 450 die.

1928

The Okeechobee hurricane strikes southeastern Florida, killing more than 2,500 people. It is the third deadliest natural disaster in United States history, behind the Galveston hurricane of 1900 and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

1943

Load of “ammunition in transit” explodes at Norfolk Naval Air Station.

1947

U.S. Department of Defense forms.

1949

128 die as fire guts Canadian passenger steamer Noronic in Toronto.

1952

“I am an American Day” and “Constitution Day” renamed “Citizenship Day”.

1959

Typhoon kills 2,000 in Japan and Korea.

1960

Cuba nationalizes U.S. banks.

1961

The world’s first retractable-dome stadium, the Civic Arena, opens in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

1962

U.S. space officials announce selection of 9 new astronauts.

1963

Train struck makeshift bus full of migrant workers, killing 32.

1976

The first Space Shuttle, Enterprise, is unveiled by NASA.

1986

A bomb exploded outside of a department store in Paris killing 7 and injuring 51.

1989

Hurricane Hugo, kills 85 in Charleston, South Carolina.

Hurricane Hugo begins 4 day sweep through Caribbean, killing 62

1992

NFL decides to suspend World League Football.

2004

The USS Curts intercepted the fishing vessel Lina Maria about 300 miles southwest of the Galapagos Islands. The fishing boat had 30,000 pounds of cocaine on board. At the time it was the largest cocaine seizure in U.S. Coast Guard history.

2006

Fourpeaked Mountain in Alaska erupts, marking the first eruption for the long-dormant volcano in at least 10,000 years.

2010

A drill reaches 33 Chilean miners who remain trapped underground after the 2010 Copiapo mining accident August 5, 2010.

2011

A 6.6 magnitude earthquake occurs off the coast of Japan, setting off a series of aftershocks.

2012

NASA reports its three-man crew of Joe Acaba and Russian colleagues Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin landed safely in the Russian-made Soyuz capsule after 123 days at the International Space Station.

2013

Engineers working off of Italy’s Tuscan coast pull the MS Costa Concordia cruise ship upright after it ran aground in early 201.

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