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• 1679 - The brigantine Le Griffon, which was commissioned by René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, is towed to the southern end of the Niagara River, to become the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes of North America.
• 1789 - The United States War Department is established.
• 1782 - George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It is later renamed to the more poetic " Purple HeartThe Purple Heart is a U. military decoration awarded in the name of the President of the United States to those who are wounded or killed while serving in or with the U. military after April 5, 1917. Appearance The Purple Heart is a purple heart within a".
• 1794Events February 11 1st session of US Senate open to the public. March 14 Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin. March 27 The United States Government established a permanent United States Navy and authorized the building of six vessels (in 17 - Whiskey RebellionThe Whiskey Rebellion was an insurrection in 1794 by settlers in the Monongahela Valley in western Pennsylvania who fought against a federal tax on liquor and distilled drinks. The ineffective government of the United States under the Articles of Confeder begins: Farmers in the Monoghaela Valley of PennsylvaniaPennsylvania (the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is one of four states of the United States of America that is called a commonwealth. It has given its name to the Pennsylvanian time period in geology. Pennsylvania is called the Keystone State. Although Swed rebel against the federal tax on liquor and distilled drinks.
• 1819Events January 17 Simon Bolivar proclaims the Republic of Colombia January 29 Sir Stamford Raffles lands on the island of Singapore February 6 Formal treaty between Sultan Hussein of Johor and the British Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles originates Singapore F - Simón BolívarSimon Jose Antonio de la Santisima Trinidad Bolivar y Palacios ( July 24, 1783 December 17, 1830) was a Venezuelan revolutionary leader. He is credited with leading the fight for independence for what are now Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivi triumphed over SpainThe Kingdom of Spain is a country located in the southwest of Europe. It shares the Iberian Peninsula with Portugal, Gibraltar and Andorra. To the northeast, along the Pyrenees mountain range, it borders France and the tiny principality of Andorra. It inc in the Battle of Boyacá.
• 1927 - Peace Bridge opens, between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.
• 1942 - World War II: Battle of Guadalcanal begins - US Marines initiate the first American offensive of the war with a landing on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands.
• 1944 - IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I).
• 1947 - Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101 day 7 000 km (4,300 mile) journey across the Pacific Ocean proving that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
• 1953 - Ohio admitted to the union, retroactive to 1803.
• 1959 - Explorer program: The United States launches Explorer 6 from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
• 1960 - Côte d'Ivoire becomes independent.
• 1964 - Vietnam War: The United States Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving US President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces.
• 1967 - Vietnam War: The People's Republic of China agrees to give North Vietnam and undisclosed amount of aid in the form of a grant.
• 1976 - Viking program: Viking 2 enters into orbit around Mars.
• 1978 - United States President Jimmy Carter declares a federal emergency at Love Canal.
• 1981 - The Washington Star ceases all operations after 128 years of publication.
• 1989 - US Congressman Mickey Leland (D-TX), and 15 others die in a plane crash in Ethiopia.
• 1990 - At 12:34:56 PM the time and date by British reckoning was 12:34:56 7/8/90.
• 1998 - 1998 U.S. embassy bombings: Bombing of the United States embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya kills 224 people and injures over 4,500.
• 2001 - Australian census