1783 USS Alliance under Captain Barry fights and wins last naval battle

US Revolutionary War off Cape Canaveral

1791 John Stone, Concord, Mass, patents a pile driver

1862 US issues 1st paper money ($5, $10, $20, $50, $100, $500 & $1000)

1876 1st telephone call made (Alexander Graham Bell to Thomas Watson)

1903 Harry Gammeter, Cleveland, patents multigraph duplicating

1905 Japanese Army captures Mukden (Shenyang)

1922 KLZ-AM in Denver CO begins radio transmissions

1944 U-575 sinks HMS Asphodel

1945 Japan declares Vietnam Independence machine