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
