0384 St Damasus I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1620 103 Mayflower pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock (12/21 NS)
1719 First recorded display of Aurora Borealis in US (New England)
1792 France's King Louis XVI went on trial, accused of treason
1816 Citizens of Geneva thwarted Savoyard invaders
1816 Indiana becomes 19th state
1844 First dental use of nitrous oxide, Hartford, Ct
1866 First yacht race across the Atlantic Ocean
1872 First black US gov took office, Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback (La)
1882 Boston's Bijou Theatre, first American playhouse lit exclusively by electricity, first performance, Gilbert and Sullivan's "Iolanthe"
1888 French Panama Canal company fails
1901 Marconi sends first transatlantic radio signal, Cornwall to Nfld
1905 120ø F (49ø C), Rivadavia, Argentina (South American record)
1909 Colored moving pictures demonstrated at Madison Square Garden, NYC
1914 Stockton Street Tunnel (San Francisco) completed
1917 13 black soldiers hanged for alleged participation in Houston riot
1917 German-occupied Lithuania proclaims independence from Russia
1918 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn dissident Russian writer, was born
1919 Boll weevil monument dedicated in Enterprise, Ala
1928 Buenos Aires police thwart an attempt on Pres-elect Herbert Hoover
1930 New York's branch of Bank of the United States announced that it had gone belly-up
1931 British Statute of Westminster gives complete legislative independence to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland, Newfndlnd
1931 Pierre Pilote Hockey Hall of Famer NHL Chicago Black Hawks defenseman was born
1932 San Francisco's coldest day (27øF).
1932 Snow falls in San Francisco
