1763 Touro shul of Newport RI dedicated (oldest existing US synagogue)

1777 British General Howe plots attack on Washington's army for Dec 4

1804 Napoleon becomes first French emperor, placing crown on his own head

1805 The Battle of Austerlitz gives Napoleon a resounding victory over combined Austrian and Russian forces

1816 First savings bank in US opens (Philadelphia Savings Fund Society)

1840 The opera "Die Favoritin" is produced (Paris)

1848 Franz Josef I becomes emperor of Austria and King of Hungary

1852 2nd French empire established; Louis Napoleon becomes emperor

1859 Abolitionist John Brown is hanged for his part in a raid on Harper's Ferry, WV.

1877 The opera "Samson et Dalila" is produced (Rouen)

1887 The First public reading of a Charles Dickens book in US (New York NY)

1891 52nd Congress (1891-93) convenes

1895 54th Congress (1895-97) convenes

1899 US and Germany agree to divide Samoa between them

1901 Gillette patents first disposable razor

1902 The V-8 engine was patented in France

1907 Tommy Burns KOs Gunner Moir to retain the heavyweight boxing title

1913 Archdiocese of Managua created

1927 Henry Ford unveils the first Model A automobile, successor to the Model T, in New York City's Waldorf Hotel.

1932 The Adventures of Charlie Chan debuts on the NBC Blue radio network.

1934 5.08-m (200") Mt Palomar Observatory mirror is cast

1938 First Harwich-England bound train with 200 German-Jewish orphaned children arrives from Holland. Eventually, 50,000 German Jews find safety in Great Britain.

1939 British Imperial Airways and British Airways merge to form BOAC

1939 New York's La Guardia Airport began operations as an airliner from Chicago lands, 1 minute after midnight

1941 Largest roller skating rink (outside of NYC) opens in Peekskill NY

1942 The First controlled nuclear chain reaction (University of Chicago)

1943 Sixteen Allied vessels are lost by Axis bombing at Bari, eastern Italy.

1950 Vic Toweel knocks down Danny O'Sullivan 14 times in a title fight

1952 The First human birth televised to public (Denver, CO)

1954 US Senate censures Joe McCarthy (Sen-R-WI) for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute"

1957 The First full-scale atomic electric power plant-power generated, Pa

1958 Benelux treaty signed by Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg

1959 Malpasset dam collapses destroying French Riviera town of Frejus

1961 Fidel Castro declares he's a Marxist, and will lead Cuba to Communism

1964 Ringo Starr's tonsils are removed

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