On this day in history ...
1739 Treaty of Belgrade-Austria cedes Belgrade to Turks
1759 British capture Qubec during the French & Indian War
1793 Washington lays cornerstone of Capitol building
1810 Chile declares independence from Spain (National Day)
1911 Britain's first twin-engine airplane test flown
1914 Battle of Aisne ends with Germans beating French during WW I
1919 Hurricane tides 16 feet above normal drown 280 along Gulf Coast
1926 Hurricane hits Miami, kills 250
1959 Vanguard 3 launched into Earth orbit
1962 Rwanda, Burundi, Jamaica & Trinidad admitted (105th-108th) to the U.N.
1974 Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, 5,000 die
1975 Heiress/bank robber Patricia Campbell Hearst captured by FBI
1979 Bolshoi Ballet dancers Leonid & Valentina Kozlov defect
1984 Joe Kittinger completes first solo balloon crossing of Atlantic
1990 Atlanta is chosen to host the 1996 (centennial) Summer Olympics
The Capitol building in Washington