American Enterprise Day
Feast of St. Malo
2349 BC-- Born -- Methuselah 878 AD -- Died -- St. Fintan of Rhienau (feast day) 1136 -- Died -- St. Leopold, Prince of Austria (feast day) 1280 -- Died -- St. Albert the Great (feast day) 1533 -- Spaniards entered the Incas' holy city, Cuzco 1630 -- Born -- Johannes Kepler 1777 -- Articles of Confederation adopted by the Continental Congress 1806 -- Pike's Peak discovered 1819 -- Died -- Daniel Rutherford 1864 -- Burned -- General Sherman at Atlanta, Georgia 1881 -- Born -- Franklin Pierce Adams 1887 -- Born -- Marianne Moore (poet) 1889 -- Born -- Manoel II, King of Portugal 1896 -- Power from Niagara Falls turned on in Buffalo, New York 1897 -- Born -- David McCord (poet) 1907 -- "Mutt and Jeff" comic strip first appeared 1932 -- Born -- Petula Clark (Sally Olwen) 1939 -- Cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial laid 1945 -- Venezuela joined the United Nations 1960 -- George Washington, first U.S. nuclear-powered submarine, began its maiden voyage 1999 -- Transit of Mercury
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