0036 -BC- Earliest known Mayan inscription, Stela 2 at Chiapa de Corzo

0043 -BC- Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman writer, gets his head and right hand chopped off by Mark Antony's soldiers

0283 St Eutychian ends his reign as Catholic Pope

1787 Delaware becomes first state to ratify constitution

1842 New York Philharmonic's first concert

1872 HMS Challenger sets sail on 3«-year world oceanographic cruise

1875 Natives Sons of the West organized

1885 49th Congress (1885-87) convenes

1891 52nd Congress (1st to appropriate $1 billion) holds first session

1909 Leo Baekeland, Yonkers NY, patents first thermosetting plastic

1916 David Lloyd George replaces resigning H.H. Asquith as British PM

1917 US becomes 13th country to declare war on Austria during World War I

1931 The last Ford Model A was produced on this day. The Ford motor works were then shut down for six months for retooling.

1932 First gyro-stabilized vessel to cross the Atlantic arrives in New York

1934 Wiley Post discovers the jet stream

1941 HMCS Windflower (Corvette) lost in a collision

1941 Japanese attack Pearl Harbor (a date that will live in infamy) first Japanese submarine sunk by a US ship (USS Ward)

1946 Fire at Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta kills 119

1953 Israel's PM Ben-Gureon retires

1956 Helen O'Connell joins the Today Show panel

1964 George Harrison changes his company's name from Mornyork to Harrisongs

1965 Chevrolet produced its three-millionth car for the year. It was the first time Chevrolet had produced an annual total surpassing three million vehicles.

1965 Pope Paul VI and Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras I simultaneously lift mutual excommunications that led to split of the 2 churches in 1054

1968 Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 launched into Earth orbit

1968 Richard Dodd returns a library book his great grandfather took out in 1823

1970 The Canadian Royal Commission on the Status of Women released its report calling for legal reforms

1971 Wings release their first album "Wild Life"

1972 Apollo 17, last of Apollo Moon series, launched

1972 Phillippine first lady Imelda Marcos stabbed and wounded by an assailant

1973 Wings release "Band on the Run"

1975 Canadian skier Ken Read is the first Canadian to win a World Cup event, a downhill racve at Val D'Isere, France

1976 UN Security Council endorses Kurt Waldheim, Secretary-General for 2nd 5 yr term

1977 Islander Billy Smith's 10th shut-out opponent-Black Hawks 4-0

1983 2 jets collided at Madrid Airport killing 93

1985 Atlantis returns to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB

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