1423 Treaty of London provided for the release of James 1 from English captivity, for ransom of £40,000 paid in 6 annual instalments, and for the sessation of reinforcements to Scottish troops in France

1489 Battle of Baza-Spanish army captures Baza from the Moors

1563 Council of Trent holds last session, after 18 years

1619 America's first Thanksgiving Day (Va)

1674 Father Marquette builds first dwelling in what is now Chicago

1680 Hen in Rome lays an egg imprinted with comet not seen until Dec 16th

1682 First General Assembly in Pennsylvania (Chester)

1762 First Manifesto issued by Catherine II. It invited foreign settlers to come to Russia. This manifesto brought few results.

1783 General Washington bids officers farewell at Fraunce's Tavern, New York NY

1808 Napoleon moves into Spain in the autumn with an army of 150,000, routs the Spanish in a series of engagements in November, takes Madrid December 4, and puts his brother Joseph back on the throne

1812 Peter Gaillard of Lancaster, Pa patents a horse-drawn mower

1816 James Monroe, Va elected 5th pres, defeating Federalist Rufus King

1843 Manila paper (made from sails, canvas & rope) patented, Mass

1864 Romanian Jews are forbidden to practice law

1867 Grange organized to protect farm interests

1872 The ship Mary Celeste was found adrift with crew missing

1875 William Marcy "Boss" Tweed (NYC-Tammany Hall) escapes from jail

1899 56th Congress (1899-1901) convenes

1899 Webb Hayes son of President Rutherford Hayes receives medal of honor

1909 First Grey Cup game (University of Toronto 26, Toronto Parkdale 6)

1915 Ku Klux Klan receives charter from Fulton County GA

1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition closes in SF (Opened Feb 20 1015)

1918 Kingdom of Serbs, Croats & Slovenes (Yugoslavia) proclaimed

1918 President Woodrow Wilson sails in USS George Washington for Paris Peace Conference.

1922 Lucille Atcherson, becomes first woman legation sect-US foreign service

1927 Duke Ellington opens at the Cotton Club in Harlem

1933 FDR creates Federal Alcohol Control Administration

1935 1,200 at St Joseph's College (Philadelphia) enroll in anticommunism class

1942 FDR orders dismantling of Works Progress Administration

1942 First US citizenship granted an alien on foreign soil (James Hoey)

1942 US bombers struck Italian mainland for first time in WW II

1943 Aircraft from USS Lexington (CV-16) and USS Independence (CVL-22) attack Kwajalein Atoll, sinking four Japanese ships and damaging five others, while only three U.S. ships suffered damage.

1944 USS Flasher (SS-249) sinks Japanese destroyer Kishinami and damages a merchant ship in South China Sea. Flasher is only U.S. submarine to sink over 100,000 tons of enemy shipping in World War II.

1945 Senate approves US participation in UN

1947 USSR joins International Amateur Athletic Union

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