1520 Martin Luther publicly burned papal edict demands he recant
1672 New York Gov Lovelace announces monthly mail service between New York and Boston
1690 Mass Bay becomes first American colonial government to borrow money
1810 Tom Cribb (GB) beats Tom Molineaus (US-Negro) in first interracial boxing championship (40 rounds)
1817 Mississippi admitted as 20th state
1831 "Spirit of the Times" begins publishing (weekly horse racing sheet)
1864 Sherman reaches Savannah and 12 day siege begins
1869 Women suffrage (right to vote) granted in Wyoming Territory (US 1st)
1898 Spanish-American War ends; US acquires Philippines, PR and Guam
1901 The first Nobel Prizes were awarded in Stockholm, Sweden
1906 President Theodore Roosevelt (1st American) awarded Nobel Peace Prize
1911 Calbraith Rogers completes first crossing of US by airplane (84 days)
1915 President Woodrow Wilson marries Edith Galt
1920 President Woodrow Wilson receives Nobel Peace Prize
1927 Grand Ole Opry makes its first radio broadcast, in Nashville, TN
1931 Jane Addams (1st US woman) named co-recipient of Nobel Peace Prize
1932 Thailand receives its first constitution
1936 England replaces King Edward VIII stamp series with King George VI
1941 HMS PRINCE OF WALES sunk off Kuantan, Malaya in the South China Sea as many as 5 or 6 torpedoes from Japanese Navy land-based aircraft (Nells and Bettys).Of the crew of 1,612 327 were lost.
1941 HMS REPULSE sunk with HMS PRince of Wales but hit by 5 torpedoes. Destroyers rescued 1,285 officers and men
1948 UN General Assembly adopts Universal Declaration of Human Rights
1950 Ralph J Bunche (1st black American) presented Nobel Peace Prize
1952 Yitchak Ben-Zvi elected 2nd president of Israel
1958 First domestic (NY-Miami) passenger jet flight-National 707 flew 111 people
1962 Hunters Point (San Francisco) jitney ends service after 50 years
