| 1298 | An army under Albert of Austria defeats forces led by Adolf of Nassau. | |
| 1625 | The Spanish army takes Breda, Spain, after nearly a year of siege. | |
| 1644 | Oliver Cromwell crushes the Royalists at the Battle of Marston Moor. | |
| 1747 | Marshall Saxe leads the French forces to victory over an Anglo-Dutch force under the Duke of Cumberland at the Battle of Lauffeld. | |
| 1776 | The Continental Congress resolves with the Declaration of Independence that the American colonies “are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.” | |
| 1822 | Denmark Vesey is executed in Charleston, South Carolina, for planning a massive slave revolt. | |
| 1858 | Czar Alexander II frees the serfs working on imperial lands. | |
| 1863 | The Union left flank holds at Little Round Top during the Battle of Gettysburg. | |
| 1881 | Charles J. Guiteau fatally wounds President James A. Garfield in Washington, D.C. | |
| 1926 | Congress establishes the Army Air Corps. | |
| 1937 | American aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart disappears in the Central Pacific during an attempt to fly around the world. | |
| 1961 | Novelist Ernest Hemingway commits suicide at his home in Ketchum, Idaho. | |
| 1964 | President Lyndon Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act into law. | |
| 1967 | The U.S. launches Operation Buffalo in Vietnam. | |
| 1976 | North and South Vietnam are officially reunified. | |
| 1980 | President Jimmy Carter reinstates draft registration for males 18 years of age. |
The network developed and produced a variety of shows ranging from early talk shows to inventive crime dramas to ground-breaking science fiction. There was Night Editor, an anthology program where the host, ostensibly the nighttime editor of a newspaper, would narrate and perform stories as though they were requested by viewers. There was the early crime drama The Plainsclothsman, told through the eyes (the camera literally showed viewers his POV) of the titular police officer. And there was Captain Video, often hailed as the earliest science fiction TV show, which followed the low-budget adventures of the Captain and his Video Rangers. DuMont also aired such groundbreaking programs as The Hazel Scott Show, often credited as the first network television show to be hosted by an African-American.But DuMont went out of business after nine years, and even worse, the shows they produced were almost all lost. Read what happened to the Dumont network at Atlas Obscura. The post contains a complete Captain Video and His Video Rangers show.
"Each of 18 male palm cockatoos, known for their shyness and elusiveness, was shown to have its own style or drumming signature," lead author Rob Heinsohn of Australian National University said in a statement.
"Some males were consistently fast, some were slow, while others loved a little flourish at the beginning."
Heinsohn said the unique rhythms could act like a signature or a call sign, identifying each bird as its beats ring through the forest.
