1520 Martin Luther publicly burned papal edict demands he recant

1672 New York Gov Lovelace announces monthly mail service between New York and Boston

1690 Mass Bay becomes first American colonial government to borrow money

1810 Tom Cribb (GB) beats Tom Molineaus (US-Negro) in first interracial boxing championship (40 rounds)

1864 Sherman reaches Savannah and 12 day siege begins

1869 Women suffrage (right to vote) granted in Wyoming Territory (US 1st)

1898 Spanish-American War ends; US acquires Philippines, PR and Guam

1901 The first Nobel Prizes were awarded in Stockholm, Sweden

1906 President Theodore Roosevelt (1st American) awarded Nobel Peace Prize

1911 Calbraith Rogers completes first crossing of US by airplane (84 days)

1915 President Woodrow Wilson marries Edith Galt

1920 President Woodrow Wilson receives Nobel Peace Prize

1927 Grand Ole Opry makes its first radio broadcast, in Nashville, TN

1931 Jane Addams (1st US woman) named co-recipient of Nobel Peace Prize

1932 Thailand receives its first constitution

1936 England replaces King Edward VIII stamp series with King George VI

1941 HMS PRINCE OF WALES sunk off Kuantan, Malaya in the South China Sea as many as 5 or 6 torpedoes from Japanese Navy land-based aircraft (Nells and Bettys).Of the crew of 1,612 327 were lost.

1941 HMS REPULSE sunk with HMS PRince of Wales but hit by 5 torpedoes. Destroyers rescued 1,285 officers and men

1948 UN General Assembly adopts Universal Declaration of Human Rights

1950 Ralph J Bunche (1st black American) presented Nobel Peace Prize

1952 Yitchak Ben-Zvi elected 2nd president of Israel

1958 First domestic (NY-Miami) passenger jet flight-National 707 flew 111 people

1962 Hunters Point (San Francisco) jitney ends service after 50 years

1963 6 year old Donny Osmond singing debut on the Andy Williams Show

1963 Zanzibar becomes independent within British Commonwealth

1966 Israeli Shmuel Yosef Agnon wins Nobel Prize for literature

1971 William H Rehnquist confirmed as Supreme Court justice

1974 Helios 1 launched by US, Germany; later makes closest flyby of Sun

1975 Andrei Sakharov's wife Yelena Bonner, accepts his Nobel Peace Prize

1977 Soyuz 26 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station

1978 In Oslo, Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat accept 1978 Nobel Peace Prize

1980 Soyuz T-3 returns to Earth

1982 Soyuz T-5 returns to Earth, 211 days after take-off

1983 Danuta Walesa, wife of Lech Walesa, accepts his Nobel Peace Prize

1983 Raul Alfonsin inaugurated as Argentina's first civilian president

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