In 1809 Wearing masks at balls forbidden in Boston. In 1817 First coffee planted in Hawaii, in Kona.
Area is now southern Arizona and New Mexico.
In 1916 Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk, advisor to tsarina, is assassinated. Russia, Ukraine and two other Soviet republics signed a Treaty of Union, creating the Soviet Union. In 1924 Edwin Hubble announces existence of other galaxies. In 1935 Italian bombers destroyed Swedish Red Cross unit in Ethiopia. In 1938 Electronic television system patented, V. K. Zworykin.