2137BC The first recorded total eclipse of the sun
310 St. Eusebius ends his reign as Catholic Pope
686 Conon begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1520 Magellan entered the strait which bears his name
1553 Volumes of the Talmud are burned
1797 The US Navy frigate Constitution ("Old Ironsides") is launched in Boston
1805 The Battle of Trafalgar: Admiral Nelson defeats the French and Spanish fleets
1805 Admiral Horatio Nelson dies in the Battle of Trafalgar
1831 Nat Turner and 19 associates are hung
1861 Battle of Balls Bluff
1868 A severe earthquake at 7:53 AM in Hayward, California
1869 The first shipment of fresh oysters comes overland from Baltimore
1871 The first US amateur outdoor athletic games: New York
1879 Thomas Edison perfects the carbonized cotton filament light bulb
1897 The Yerkes Observatory of the University of Chicago is dedicated
1915 The first transatlantic radiotelephone message is sent
1917 The first Americans to see action on the front lines of WW I
1918 Margaret Owen sets world typing speed record of 170 wpm
1944 US troops capture Aachen, Germany
1945 Women in France are allowed to vote for the first time
1948 Facsimile high-speed radio transmission is demonstrated
1950 The Chinese forces occupy Tibet
1959 The Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opens in New York City
1960 JFK and Nixon clashed again in the final presidential debate: held in New York City
1966 144 people die as a coal waste landslide hits a school in South Wales
1967 Thousands opposing Vietnam War try to storm the Pentagon
1969 Bloodless coup in Somalia
1970 777 Unification church couples get married in Korea
1970 Caledonian Airways takes over British United Airways
1971 Nixon nominates Lewis F. Powell and William H Rehnquist to the US Supreme Court following the resignations of Justices Hugo Black and John Harlan
1975 Mexico City's first major subway accident claims 26 lives
1975 The Venera 9, first craft to orbit the planet Venus, is launched
1976 American Saul Bellow wins the Nobel Prize for Literature
1977 The US recalls William Bowdler, the ambassador to South Africa
1984 Steve Jones runs the Chicago Marathon in a world record time: 2:08:05
1987 The Senate debate begins rejecting Robert Bork's Supreme Court nomination
1988 The Boston Celtics defeat Yugoslavia 113-85 in Madrid
1988 Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos are indicted on racketeering charges
1989 Buck Helm is found alive after being buried for 4 days in San Francisco earthquake
1989 The first black owners (Betram Lee and Peter Bynoe) to own a major sports team: Denver Nuggets
1991 24 people die in a fire in Oakland California
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