1545 Council of Trent (19th ecumenical council) opens
1577 Sir Francis Drake sets sail from England to go around the world
1642 New Zealand discovered by Dutch navigator Abel Tasman
1769 Dartmouth College in New Hampshire received its charter
1774 First incident of the Revolution-400 attack Fort William and Mary, NH
1816 Patent for a dry dock issued to John Adamson, Boston
1862 Battle of Fredericksburg, Va; South beats North
1879 First federal fish hatching steamer launched (Wilmington Delaware)
1898 First passenger train over the newly reconstructed Victoria Railway Bridge, Montreal. The original 1859 tube had been replaced by a double track steel bridge.
1903 Italo Marcioni patents the ice cream cone (NJ)
1916 Avalanche kills 10,000 Austrian and Italian troops in 24 hrs in Tyrol
1918 US army of occupation crosses the Rhine, enters Germany
1918 Wilson, becomes first to make a foreign visit as president (France)
1919 Ross and Smith land in Australia from a flight from London
1920 F Pease's interferometer measures first stellar diameter (Betelgeuse)
1924 KOA-AM in Denver CO begins radio transmissions
1928 George Gershwin's "An American In Paris" premieres (New York NY)
1938 "Aryanization" decree is enacted, all Jewish property is transferred to Aryan possession.
1938 Los Angeles freezes at 28ø
1944 Japanese kamikaze crashes into US cruiser Nashville, kills 138
1947 Maine Turnpike opens to traffic
1949 Knesset votes to transfer Israel's capitol to Jerusalem
1951 Future British PM Margaret Roberts Thatcher marries Denis Thatcher
1959 Archbishop Makarios elected first president of Cyprus
1963 Capitol records signs right of first refusal agreement with the Beatles
