1997 David Frost wins Golf's Colonial Final in Ft. Worth Texas
1996 Ted Nightingale, former colonial governor, dies at 91
1993 125th Belmont: Julie Krone aboard Colonial Affair wins in 2:29.8
1968 New colonial constitution for Bermuda adopted
1959 Keith Allen Clearwater, born in Long Beach, California, PGA golfer, 1987 Colonial Natl
1957 Betty Dodd wins LPGA Colonial Golf Open
1955 Danny Joe Pohl, born in Mt Pleasant, Michigan, PGA golfer, 1986 Colonial
1953 French minister Francois Mitterrand, resigns due to colonial policy
1952 General strike against French colonial management in Tunisia
1946 Sukarno calls for anti colonial defiance in Indonesia
1942 KNIL, Dutch colonial army on Java, surrenders to Japanese armies
1941 45th U.S. Golf Open: Craig Wood shoots a 284 at Colonial Club Ft. Worth
1934 Italian colonial Tripoli and Cyrenaica annexed to Libya
1933 Dutch colonial regime in Batavia arrest ir Sukarno
1933 Colonial troops in Suriname kill 2 demonstrators
1933 Colonial government arrests Anton de Kom in Paramaribo Suriname
1926 Dutch Queen Wilhelmina opens Royal Colonial Institution
1925 French colonial army beats Rifkabylen in Morocco
1915 Albert J-BJ Thijs, Belgian Colonial pioneer (Congo), dies at 65
1914 Raffenel, French general (3rd Colonial Div, WW I), dies in battle
1914 Rondoney, French general (3rd Colonial Div, WW I), dies in battle
1909 Ernest F Cambier, Bel colonial pioneer (1st Congo railway), dies at 65
1909 Foley Newns, British colonial administrator
1904 Ted Nightingale, former colonial governor
1904 Great Britain and France sign Cordial Entente concerning colonial matter
1895 John F Loudon, entrepreneur/colonial director, dies at 74
1892 National Society of Colonial Dames of America founded
1879 Zulu war against British colonial rule in South Africa begins
1856 Carel SW van Hogendorp, colonial director, dies at 68
1852 Pierre Brazza, explorer/colonial administrator, French Africa
1849 Albert J-BJ Th˜s, Belgian colonial pioneer, Congo
1844 Ernest F Cambier, Belgian colonial pioneer, 1st railway Congo.
1838 Willem earl van Hogendorp, Dutch colonial governor, dies at about 43
1838 Arnold A Buyskes, Dutch vice-admiral/colonial director, dies at 67
1827 Harman W. Muntinghe, lawyer/colonial director, dies at 54
1823 Jacob A Uitenhage de Mist, Dutch politician/colonial dir, dies at 74
1821 John F Loudon, Dutch entrepreneur/colonial director.
1819 Dutch colonial troops driven out of Palembang Sumatra
1790 Colonial troops occupy Bonni's marroon village
1788 Carel SW van Hogendorp, Dutch colonial director
1774 1st Continental Congress is 1st to declare colonial rights (Phila)
1774 1st American colonial decl of rights with sinking of Peggy Stewart
1773 Harman W. Muntinghe, lawyer/Dutch colonial director
1771 Jacob Andries van Braam, colonial director, Suriname
1771 Arnold A. Buyskes, Dutch vice-admiral/colonial director
1760 Suriname Colonial Regime signs treaty with Aukaners (ex-slaves)
1758 English and Colonial assault on France at Ticonderoga, New York
1744 John Jeffries, colonial physician/meteorologist
1738 John Singleton Copley, Massachusetts, finest colonial American artist
1714 Cornelis Chastelein, colonial director, dies at 56
1690 Mass Bay becomes 1st American colonial goverment to borrow money
1681 English Quaker William Penn receives charter from Charles II, making him sole proprietor of colonial American territory Pennsylvania
1676 1st colonial prision organized, Nantucket Mass
1668 Stephen Day, 1st British colonial printer, dies
1663 1st serious slave conspiracy in colonial America (Virginia)
1658 Antoine Cadillac, french colonial governor of America
1657 Cornelis Chastelein, Dutch colonial director
1646 Joseph Jenkes, MA, receives 1st colonial machine patent
1630 1st colonial legislation prohibiting gambling enacted (Boston)
1619 John A van Riebeeck, colonial director/founder, Cape Colony
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