Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan established, 1905.
German troops invaded Poland, starting World War II in Europe, 1939.

Great Fire of London began, 1666.
U.S. Department of the Treasury established, 1789.
Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii, born 1838.
Britain signed the Treaty of Paris, ending the Revolutionary War in America, 1783.
Louis H. Sullivan, American architect, born 1856.
First Labor Day celebrated in the United States, 1894.
Francois Rene de Chateaubriand, French author, born 1768.
Marcus Whitman, American missionary, born 1802.
Daniel H. Burnham, American architect, born 1846.
First Continental Congress met in Philadelphia, 1774.
Jesse James, American outlaw, born 1847.

Massachusetts Bay Colony established, 1628.
Marquis de Lafayette, French statesman, born 1757.
John Dalton, English scientist, born 1766.
Queen Elizabeth I of England, born 1533.
Brazil declared its independence, 1822.
J. P. Morgan, Jr., American financier, born 1867.
First permanent white settlement in what is now the U.S. founded in St. Augustine, Florida, 1565.
Antonin Dvorak, Czech composer, born 1841.
Robert A. Taft, American senator from Ohio, born 1889.
Cardinal Richelieu, French statesman, born 1585.
Luigi Galvani, Italian anatomist, born 1737.
William Bligh, British sea captain of the Bounty, born 1754.
Thomas Sydenham, English physician, born 1624.
Oliver Hazard Perry defeated the British in the Battle of Lake Erie in 1813, during the War of 1812.
Elias Howe patented his sewing machine, 1846.
Battle of Brandywine in the American Revolution, 1777.
William Sydney Porter, American short-story writer who used the pseudonym O. Henry, born 1862.
Chile's military leaders overthrew elected government of Salvador Allende, 1973.
Henry Hudson entered the Hudson River, 1609.
H. L. Mencken, American editor, born 1880.
Russians launched first rocket to the moon, 1959.
Walter Reed, American surgeon, born 1851.
John J. Pershing, American general, born 1860.
Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian composer, born 1874.
The United Kingdom and its American Colonies adopted the Gregorian calendar, 1752.
Alexander von Humboldt, German scientist and geographer, born 1769.
Francis Scott Key wrote \"The Star-Spangled Banner\" during an attack on Fort McHenry in 1814, during the War of 1812.
Mexican two-day Independence Days celebration begins.
Respect for the Aged Day, Japan.
James Fenimore Cooper, American novelist, born 1789.
Pilgrims sailed from England in the Mayflower, 1620.
Selective Service Act passed by the U.S. Congress, 1940.

Citizenship Day, United States.
Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, German American general in the American Revolution, born 1730.
Constitution of the United States signed, 1787.
Samuel Johnson, English author and dictionary maker, born 1709.
Quebec surrendered to the British, 1759.
Washington laid cornerstone of the U.S. Capitol, 1793.
Edward, the \"Black Prince\" of England, won the Battle of Poitiers in the Hundred Years' War, 1356.
First Battle of Freeman's Farm in the American Revolution began, 1777.
U.S. President George Washington's Farewell Address published, 1796.
Sister Elizabeth Kenny, Australian nurse, born 1880.


Girolamo Savonarola, Italian reformer, born 1452.
Great hurricane swept the U.S. Atlantic Coast, 1938.
Malta became an independent constitutional monarchy, 1964.
Earl of Chesterfield, English statesman and author, born 1694.
Nathan Hale, American patriot, put to death by the British, 1776.
Michael Faraday, English scientist, born 1791.
Augustus, first Roman emperor, born 63 B.C.
Thomas Osborne, American prison reformer, born 1859.

Horace Walpole, English author, born 1717.
John Marshall, U.S. chief justice, born 1755.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, American author, born 1896.
Christopher Columbus sailed on his second voyage to America, 1493.
Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa sighted the Pacific Ocean, 1513.
Publick Occurrences, first American newspaper, appeared in Boston, 1690.
T. S. Eliot, poet, born in the United States in 1888.
George Gershwin, American composer, born 1898.

Samuel Adams, American patriot, born 1722.
George Cruikshank, English caricaturist, born 1792.
Thomas Nast, American cartoonist, born 1840.
William the Conqueror landed in England, 1066.
Georges Clemenceau, French statesman, born 1841.

Robert Clive, British soldier, born 1725.
Horatio Nelson, British naval hero, born 1758.
Henry H. Richardson, American architect, born 1838.
Pompey, Roman general, born 106 B.C.
Bechuanaland Protectorate gained independence as the Republic of Botswana in 1966.

