1610 - 1st Dutch settlers arrive (from NJ), to colonize Manhattan Island.
1848 - 1st telegraph link between NYC & Chicago.
1786 - A landslide dam on the Dadu River caused by earthquake ten days earlier collapses, killing 100,000 in the Sichuan province of China.
1808 - Friedrich Kaiser, Dutch astronomer.
1973 - NASA launches Radio Astronomy Explorer 49 into lunar orbit.
