1492 Christopher Columbus signs contract with Spain to find the Indies

1521 Martin Luther is excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church

1524 NY Harbor discovered by Giovanni Verrazano

1758 Francis Williams, first US black college graduate, publishes poems

1778 Sloop-in-war Ranger captures British brig

1793 Battle of Warsaw

1808 Bayonne Decree by Napoleon I of France orders seizure of US ships

1852 Asteroid 17, Thetis discovered

1852 R Luther discovers asteroid #17 Thetis

1853 US Marine Hospital at Presidio (SF) established

1861 Asteroid 67, Asia discovered

1861 N R Pogson discovers asteroid #67 Asia

1861 Virginia become 8th state to secede

1865 Mary Surratt is arrested as a conspirator in Lincoln's assassination

1875 "Snooker" (variation of pool) invented by Sir Neville Chamberlain

1888 J Palisa discovers asteroid #276 Adelheid

1894 Nikita Khrushchev (USSR premier 1958­64) born

1895 Treaty of Shimonoseki signed, ends first Sino-Japanese War (1894-95)

1897 Thornton Wilder (American playwright) born

1900 7 high chiefs of American Samoa sign Instrument of Cession

1915 M Wolf discovers asteroid #805 Hormuthia

1930 Abkhazian ASSR established in Georgian SSR

1941 Office of Price Administration established (handled rationing)

1946 Last French troops leave Syria (National Day)

1947 Jackie Robinson bunts for his first major league hit

1953 Mickey Mantle hits a 565' (172 m) HR in Wash DC's Griffith Stadium

1956 USSR's Cominform (Parliament) dissolves

1956 Willie Mosconi sinks 150 consecutive balls in a billiard tournament

1958 Brussel's (Belgium) World Fair opens

1960 American Samoa sets up a constitutional government

1961 1,400 Cuban exiles land in Bay of Pigs attempt to overthrow Castro

1964 Ford Mustang formally introduced ($2368 base)

1964 Jerrie Mock becomes first woman to fly solo around the world

1967 Operation Linebacker II began in Mekong Delta

1967 Shortwave Radio NY Worldwide goes back on the air after a week off

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