1311 Council of Vienne opens
1775 Portland, Maine is burned by the British
1781 George Washington takes Yorktown
1793 Marie Antoinette is beheaded in France
1829 Tremont Hotel, the first US modern hotel opens in Boston (first to have indoor plumbing)
1841 Queens University in Kingston is chartered
1846 Dentist William T. Morton demonstrated the effectiveness of ether
1848 The first US homeopathic medical college opens in Pennsylvania
1849 Avery College establishes in Allegheny, Pennsylvania
1849 The British seize Tigre Island in the Gulf of Fonseca
1859 John Brown leads 20 in a raid on the federal arsenal in Harper's Ferry, VA
1861 The Confederacy starts selling postage stamps
1867 Alaska adopts the Gregorian calendar
1876 Race riot at Cainhoy, SC
1916 Margaret Sanger opens the first birth control clinic: in New York
1923 The Disney Co. is founded
1925 Texas School Board prohibits the teaching of evolution
1926 Troop ship sinks in the Yangtze River killing 1,200 people
1931 Trunk murderess Winnie Ruth Judd chops her first victim
1940 Benjamin Oliver Davis, Sr. is named the first black general in the regular army
1940 Lottery for the first US WW II draftees is held: #158 is drawn first
1940 The Warsaw Ghetto established
1941 The "Gordo" comic strip first appears in newspapers
1941 Germany advances within 60 miles of Moscow
1942 A cyclone in the Bay of Bengal kills some 40,000 people south of Calcutta India
1943 Chicago Mayor Ed Kelly opens the city's new subway system
1945 UN's Food and Agriculture Organization comes into existence
1946 10 Nazi leaders are hanged as war criminals after Nuremberg trials
1952 The Woolworth's at Powell and Market in San Francisco
1956 William J. Brennan, Jr. becomes a Supreme Court Justice
1957 Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip visit Williamsburg, Virginia
1962 Byron R. White becomes a Supreme Court Justice
1962 The Cuban missile crisis began as JFK becomes aware of the missiles in Cuba
1964 China becomes the world's 5th nuclear power
1970 Anwar Sadat is elected the president of Egypt, succeeding Gamal Abdel Nasser
1973 Kissinger and Le Duc Tho are jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
1973 Maynard Jackson is elected the mayor of Atlanta
1978 Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla is elected supreme pontiff: Pope John Paul II
1982 Mt Palomar Observatory becomes the first to detect Halley's Comet on its 13th return
1982 Shultz warns that the US will withdraw from the UN if they vote to exclude Israel
1984 Desmond Tutu wins the Nobel Peace Prize
1985 Intel introduces its 32-bit 80386 microcomputer chip
1986 Armand Hammer returns to US with David Goldfarb
1986 The US government closes down due to budget problems
1987 Jessica McClure is rescued 58 hrs after falling 22' into a Texas well shaft
1990 US forces reach 200,000 in the Persian Gulf
1991 George Jo Hennard kills 23 people, wounds 20, and then kills himself in Texas
1991 The US Supreme Court begins to hear the Joseph Doherty case
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