0768 Stephen III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1498 Columbus arrives in Caribbean
1620 Kepler's mother arrested for witchcraft
1782 Badge of US Military Merit (Purple Heart) established by George Washington
1789 US War Department established
1819 Battle of Boyac ; Bolvar defeats Spanish in Colombia
1820 First potatoes planted in Hawaii
1882 Hatfields of south WV & McCoys of east Ky feud, 100 wounded. Many dead.
1888 Patent for revolving door granted
1912 Progressive (Bull Moose) Party nominates Theodore Roosevelt for pres
1915 Charge of Australian Light Horse Brigade at the Nek, Gallipoli
1915 Crpl. Cyril Royston Guyton BASSETT, NZ Divisional Signals, NZ Engineers won the Victoria Cross at Chunuk Bair, on the Gallipoli Peninsula
1938 2 die in a New York subway accident
1940 Largest amount paid for a stamp ($45,000 for an 1856 British Guiana)
1941 551 Jews are shot in Kishnev ghetto in Romania
1944 German counterattacks at Avranches "bottleneck." Allies successfully defend advances and continue to sweep Brittany.
1946 First coin bearing portrait of Negro authorized
1947 Balsa raft Kon Tiki crashes into a Polynesian archipelago reef
1950 Cabinet decides to recruit and create a special Canadian armed force of 5,000 men for service with United Nations in Korea.
1951 Douglas D-558-II Skyrocket reaches 1,992 kph
1953 Eastern Airlines enters the jet age, uses Electra prop-jet
1959 Explorer 6 transmits first TV photo of Earth from space
1960 Ivory Coast gains independence from France
1960 Students stage kneel-in demonstrations in Atlanta churches
1961 Russian Cosmonaut Gherman Titov circles Earth for a full day in Vostok 2
