608 St Boniface IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1620 The Mayflower departs from Plymouth, England with 102 pilgrims aboard
1776 British forces capture Kip's Bay Manhattan during the Revolution
1789 Department of Foreign Affairs, renamed the Department of State
1821 Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala Honduras and Nicaragua gain their independence
1830 The first person to be run-over by a railroad train: William Huskisson
1853 The first US woman ordained a minister: Antoinette Blackwell
1862 Stonewall Jackson takes Harper's Ferry
1887 Philadelphia celebrates the 100th anniversary of the US Constitution
1894 Japan defeats China in Battle of Ping Yang
1898 National Afro-American Council forms in Rochester NY
1904 Wilbur Wright makes his first airplane flight
1914 Battle of Aisne begins between Germans and French during WW I
1916 The first tank used in war: "Little Willies" at the Battle of Flors, France
1917 Russia proclaimed a republic by Alexander Kerensky
1931 The British naval force mutinies at Invergordon over pay
1935 Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of citizenship and makes the now infamous Swastika the official symbol of Nazi Germany
1938 British Prime Minister Chamberlain visits Hitler at Berchtesgarden
1940 Tide turns in Battle of Britain in WW II, RAF beats the Luftwaffe
1941 Nazis kill 800 Jewish women at Shkudvil, Lithuania
1947 The first 4 engine jet propelled fighter plane is tested in Columbus, Ohio
1949 The Lone Ranger TV series premiers on ABC-TV
1950 During the Korean conflict, the UN forces land at Inchon in the south
1952 UN turns over Eritrea to Ethiopia
1957 "Bachelor Father" with John Forsythe premiers
1958 48 people die in a train crash in Elizabethport, NJ
1958 Commuter train crashes through drawbridge, killing 48 in Newark, NJ
1959 Soviet Premier Khrushchev arrives in the US to begin a 13-day visit
1961 Hurricane Carla strikes Texas with winds of 175 mph
1963 Four children are killed in bombing of a black Baptist church in Birmingham
1965 The TV series "Lost in Space" premiers
1966 Gemini XI returns to Earth
1970 Decca awards Bing Crosby a second platinum disc for selling 300 million
1973 "Star Trek-Animated" premiers on TV
1978 Muhammad Ali beats WBA heavyweight champion Leon Spinks
1981 US Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Sandra Day O'Connor
1982 The first issue of "USA Today" is published by Gannett Company, Inc.
1982 Israeli forces began pouring into west Beirut
1988 Lillehammer, Norway upsets Anchorage to host the 1994 Winter Olympics
1990 The Florida lottery goes over $100,000,000
1990 France announced it will send 4,000 troops to the Persian Gulf
1991 SD State freshman Marshall Faulk sets an NCAA rushing record of 386 yards
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