APACHE CHIEF GERONIMO
In 1781 The city of Los Angeles in California was founded as El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora de Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula [ the City of Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels of the Little Portion] by a group of 44 Spanish settlers.
In 1886 In the US, the wars waged by white settlers against Native Americans almost come to an end with the surrender of the Apache leader Geronimo in Arizona. He dies as a prisoner of war.
In 1888 George Eastman receives a patent for a camera that uses roll film and registers the trademark Kodak. Before that cameras were the size of a microwave oven and needed chemicals, glass plates, and tanks to take a photo.
In 1951 The first live transcontinental television broadcast, of President Harry Truman's address, takes place in San Francisco, California, from the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference.
In 1972 US swimmer Mark Spitz wins his seventh gold medal at the 1972 Olympics in Munich Germany.
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