638 Honorius I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
642 John IV ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1285 180 Jews refuse baptism in Munich, Germany and so they are set on fire
1492 Columbus arrives in the Bahamas
1776 A British Brigade begins guarding Throgg Necks Road in the Bronx
1822 The second eruption of Galunggung (in Java) destroys the summit of the mountain
1823 Charles Macintosh of Scotland begins selling raincoats called "Macs"
1860 British and French troops capture Peking
1861 The Confederate ironclad ship "Manassas" attacks the Union's "Richmond" on the Mississippi
1862 JEB Stuart completes his "2nd ride around McClellan"
1862 Major General Earl Van Dorn assumes command of the Confederate troops in Mississippi
1870 Robert E. Lee, General of the Confederate Army, dies at age 63
1886 A Hurricane and sea surge kills 250 at Indianola, Texas
1891 The Astronomical Society of France is inaugurated
1915 English nurse Edith Cavell is executed by the Germans in Belgium
1915 President Theodore Roosevelt criticizes US citizens with dual nationalities
1916 Boston Red Sox beat Brooklyn Dodgers in the 13th World Series: 4 games to 1
1918 The first use of an iron lung: Boston's Children Hospital
1918 Minnesota forest fires destroy over two dozen communities and 559 people die
1920 Man O' War's last race and win
1924 Sokolnicheskaya Radio begins broadcasting from Moscow
1931 The first International Conference on Calendar Reform
1933 Alcatraz becomes a federal prison
1933 John Dillinger escapes from the Allen County, OH jail. (Dillinger was caught in Tucson, Arizona)
1941 The Russian government moves from Moscow to Volga as the Nazis forces close on Moscow
1942 The US Navy defeats the Japanese in WW II Battle of Cape Esperance
1948 Casey Stengel takes over as the Yankee manager
1949 Eugenie Anderson becomes the first woman ambassador nominated in US
1957 The first commercial flight between California and Antarctica
1960 Russian leader Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on the table at the UN General Assembly session – and vows to bury the Americans' grandchildren
1962 The US and USSR sign a joint space effort in telecommunications and meteorology
1963 The archaeological digs begin at Masada, Israel
1968 The 19th Modern Olympic games opens in Mexico City
1968 Equatorial Guinea gains independence from Spain
1968 Norma Enriqueta Basilio Satelo becomes the first woman to light the Olympic flame
1969 Yoko Ono suffers another miscarriage
1972 46 sailors are injured in a race riot on the US aircraft carrier "Kitty Hawk"
1972 Mariner 9 takes pictures of Martian north pole
1973 President Nixon nominates Gerald Ford to replace Spiro Agnew as VP
1975 NASA launches space vehicle S-195
1976 Hua Guo-Feng succeeds Mao Tse-Tung as chairman of the Chinese Communist Party
1977 Psychic Romark attempts to drive blindfolded and smashes into a police van
1977 US Supreme Court heard arguments in the "reverse discrimination" case of Allan Bakke, a white student denied admission to the University of California Medical School
1978 Representatives of Israel and Egypt open talks in Washington, DC
1982 15.2" of rainfall in Alaska sets a new state record
1984 IRA bombs the hotel where Margaret Thatcher is staying
1985 The International Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War receives the Nobel Prize
1988 Israel and China sign a trade agreement and plan diplomatic relations
1989 Herschel Walker is traded from the Cowboys to the Vikings for TWELVE players
1992 Expo '92 closes in Seville, Spain
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