1776 George Washington's retreating army crosses Delaware River from NJ

1794 Premier issue of the Herald of Rutland, VT published

1854 Pope Pius IX proclaims Immaculate Conception, makes Mary, free of Original Sin

1861 William Durant auto manufacturer cofounder of Chevrolet, founder of General Motors, Durant Motors; was born

1863 2,500 reported killed at Church of La Compana, Santiago Chile

1863 Abraham Lincoln announces plan for Reconstruction of South

1869 20th Roman Catholic ecumenical council, Vatican I, opens in Rome

1881 Vienna's Ring Theater destroyed by fire, kills between 640-850

1886 American Federation of Labor (AFL) formed by 26 craft unions; Samuel Gompers elected AFL president

1902 Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr became Associate Justice on Supreme Court

1909 Bird banding society found

1913 Construction starts on Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco

1925 Sammy Davis, Jr. entertainer was born on this day

1933 Flip (Clerow) Wilson Emmy Award-winning comedy writer was born

1933 Secretary of the Navy establishes Fleet Marine Force, integrating a ready-to-deploy Marine force with own aircraft into Fleet organization.

1940 German Luftwaffe launches massive attack on London

1941 US declares war on Japan.

1941 USS Wake (PR-3), a river gunboat moored at Shanghai, is only U.S. vessel to surrender during World War II.

1942 Eight PT boats (PT 36, PT 37, PT 40, PT 43, PT 44, PT 48, PT 59, and PT 109) turn back 8 Japanese destroyers attempting to reinforce Japanese forces on Guadalcanal.

1947 Gregg Allman musician keyboards, guitar, singer was born

1953 Kim Basinger actress was born

1953 Los Angeles became the third largest city in the U.S. The City of Angels slid past Philadelphia for the distinction in a special census.

1961 Surfin’, The Beach Boys first record, was released on Candix Records. It became a local hit in Los Angeles

1963 Frank Sinatra, Jr. was kidnapped in Lake Tahoe, Nevada. He was set free four days later.

1966 Sinead O’Connor singer was born

1978 Golda Meir served as Israel's PM (1969-74, dies in Jerusalem at 80

1980 John Lennon assassinated in New York by Mark David Chapman

1983 Slim Pickins western actor dies at 64 after brain surgery

1987 Occupied Palestinians start "intefadeh" (uprising) against Israel

1987 President Reagan & Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev sign a treaty eliminating medium range nuclear missiles

1991 Russia, Byelorussia & Ukraine form Commonwealth of Ind States

1993 The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is signed into US law. NAFTA is a trade pact between the United States, Canada, and Mexico, eliminates virtually all tariffs and trade restrictions between the three nations.

1997 The Carlton Trail Railway (Omnitrax) takes over the operation of the following CN lines in north western Saskatchewan Warman Junction to just north of Prince Albert. Speers Junction to Meadow Lake.

1941 As a result of the attack on Pearl Harbour, Britain, the United States and Australia declare war on Japan

1991 The Soviet Union comes to an end, with the forming of a 'Commonwealth of Independent States'

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