Historical Events

Penn Leaves England

1682 William Penn leaves England to sail to the New World

Jephtha

1751 George Frideric Handel completes oratorio "Jephtha"

1799 Batavian fleet surrenders to British navy during Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland

1860 First British tram begins operating in Birkenhead

1894 British explorer Frederick Lugard begins his expedition to Niger

1900 Last 2,000 British prisoners in Nooitgedagt, South Africa, freed

Hobbs Scores 316

1926 Jack Hobbs scores 316 not out at Lord's (Surrey vs. Middlesex)

US National Women's Championship

1927 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Helen Wills Moody beats England's Betty Nuthall Shoemaker 6-1, 6-4 for her 4th of 7 US singles titles

British Nuclear Program

1941 Winston C

See Full Page