* Blooms Day
* Ford Motor Comapany Incorporated
* Fresh Veggies Day
* International Day of Family Remittances
* World Sea Turtle Day
* National Fudge Day
*Arborist Appreciation Day
1624 - Virginia becomes an English crown colony following the bankruptcy of the London Company
1745 - British fleet occupies Cape Breton on St Lawrence River
1746 - Battle at Piacenza: Austria & Sardinia beat Spanish and French army
1755 - British capture strategic Fort Beauséjour, eastern Canada, expelling the Acadians and renaming it Fort Cumberland
1774 - Formation of Harrodsburg, Kentucky
1784 - Holland forbids the wearing of orange clothes
1794 - 1st stone laid at biggest Dutch grain windmill De Walvisch in Schiedam
1815 - Battle at Quatre-Bras: Duke of Wellington's English forces engage the French in a preliminary battle two days before the Battle of Waterloo
1822 - Denmark Vesey (aka Telemaque) Black American carpenter accused of planning a slave rebellion in South Carolina; tried and convicted, later executed by hanging
1823 - Dutch King Willem I opens shipyard at Rotterdam-Antwerp
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