1619 - House of Burgesses Virginia forms, 1st elective American governing body. This city is the first settlement in the New World where the first English settlers arrived in 1607.
1729 - City of Baltimore founded
1775 - Captain Cook with Resolution returns to England
1825 - Malden Island is discovered.
1863 - Henry Ford, Dearborn Township Michigan, industrialist and auto maker (Ford- model T), (d. 1947)
1909 - Wright Brothers deliver 1st military plane to the army
1971 - US Apollo 15 (Scott & Irwin) lands on Mare Imbrium on the Moon
1980 - Vanuatu (New Hebrides) gains independence from Britain & France
