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1865: "Three men and a Lady" The lady is usually right!? in this case also the first woman executed in the US as one of the Lincoln Assassination Conspirators. Photographed by Scotsman Alexander Gardiner. 1919: The first transcontinental Motor Convoy in which a US Army convoy crossed the United States departs Washington D.C. The trip ended September 6 1919 in San Francisco! Thank God for the interstate! I've done it (with a co-driver in '78) in big-rigs in less than 3 days-Gotta have fresh strawberries in the Big Apple! 1937: the Second Sino-Japanese War goes full scale as Imperial Japanese forces attack the Marco Polo Bridge in Beijing-WW II starts! After the Pearl Harbor Attack in 1941, the war merged into the greater conflict of WWII as a major front of what is broadly known as the Pacific War. The Second Sino-Japanese War was the largest Asian war in the 20th century. It also made up more than 50% of the casualties in the Pacific War if the 1937–1941 period is taken into account.?!! First built in 1189 and in its present form since 1698- the first shots 'heard round the world' of WWII were fired here 77 years ago... the bridge on the Yongding River is a landmark and houses a war museum at one end. The skirmish is well remembered in China!