1349 Jews are massacred at Nuremberg in Black death riots

1492 Columbus discovers Hispaniola (El Espanola) (Haiti)

1496 Jews are expelled from Portugal by order of King Manuel I

1776 Phi Beta Kappa, first American scholastic fraternity, founded

1791 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composer, dies in Vienna, Austria, at 35

1843 Launching of USS Michigan at Erie, Penn., America's first iron-hulled warship, as well as first prefabricated ship.

1875 Sir Arthur Currie, the first Canadian commander of the Canadian Corps in WW1 is born

1879 Daniel and Thomas Connolly and Thomas McTighe received a patent for the first automatic telephone system

1894 Phillip K. Wrigley (Wrigley Gum) born

1925 Canadian comedian David Broadfoot, a star of the Royal Canadian Air FArce is born

1929 First US nudist organization (American League for Physical Culture, NYC)

1929 SS Frances Duncan, built 1907 by Palmers Newcastle on Tyne. Foundered off Lands End, Cornwall, while carrying coal from Barry, South Wales to Rouen, France. 16 lost out of the crew of 21.

1932 German physicist Albert Einstein granted a visa

1932 The first Ford Model C automobile was introduced. It boasted the first four-cylinder engine made by Ford with a counter-balanced crankshaft.

1933 18th Amendment (Prohibition) repealed

1935 At Challander, Ontartio, the infant Dionne quintuplets are filmed for a movie based on their birth

1935 Commercial hydroponics operation established (Montebello CA)

1939 A Sunderland aircraft of 10 Squadron RAAF, part of the RAF Coastal Command, flies on the first official RAAF operation of World War Two

1940 HMCS Saguenay (Destroyer) first Canadian Warship torpedoed, limps into a British port

1941 USS Lexington (CV-2) sails with Task Force 12 to ferry Marine aircraft to Midway, leaving no carriers at Pearl Harbor.

1945 Aircraft squadron lost in the Bermuda Triangle

1947 Jersey Joe Walcott beats Joe Louis

1950 Ships of the RAN participate in the evacuation of Chinnampo, Korea

1951 "Dragnet" premiers

1955 The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), a federation of autonomous trade unions in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, is formed

1957 NYC becomes first city to legislate against racial or religious discrimination in housing market (Fair Housing Practices Law)

1964 The first Medal of Honor awarded to a U.S. serviceman for action in Vietnam is presented to Capt. Roger Donlon of Saugerties, New York, for his heroic action earlier in the year.

1967 Beatles clothing store "Apple" on 94 Baker Street, London, opens

1968 Rolling Stones release "Beggar's Banquet" LP

1970 A North Vietnamese newspaper declares that the country will not be intimidated by U.S. bombing threats.

1973 Paul McCartney releases "Band on the Run" album

1974 Airport terminal roof collapses killing 17 (Teheran Iran)

1974 Seattle Seahawks formed

1975 NASA launches space vehicle S-196, it failed

1977 Egypt breaks diplomatic relations with Syria, Libya, Algeria, Iraq & S Yemen

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