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