0384 St Damasus I ends his reign as Catholic Pope

1620 103 Mayflower pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock (12/21 NS)

1719 First recorded display of Aurora Borealis in US (New England)

1792 France's King Louis XVI went on trial, accused of treason

1816 Citizens of Geneva thwarted Savoyard invaders

1816 Indiana becomes 19th state

1844 First dental use of nitrous oxide, Hartford, Ct

1866 First yacht race across the Atlantic Ocean

1872 First black US gov took office, Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback (La)

1882 Boston's Bijou Theatre, first American playhouse lit exclusively by electricity, first performance, Gilbert and Sullivan's "Iolanthe"

1888 French Panama Canal company fails

1901 Marconi sends first transatlantic radio signal, Cornwall to Nfld

1905 120ø F (49ø C), Rivadavia, Argentina (South American record)

1909 Colored moving pictures demonstrated at Madison Square Garden, NYC

1914 Stockton Street Tunnel (San Francisco) completed

1917 13 black soldiers hanged for alleged participation in Houston riot

1917 German-occupied Lithuania proclaims independence from Russia

1918 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn dissident Russian writer, was born

1919 Boll weevil monument dedicated in Enterprise, Ala

1928 Buenos Aires police thwart an attempt on Pres-elect Herbert Hoover

1930 New York's branch of Bank of the United States announced that it had gone belly-up

1931 British Statute of Westminster gives complete legislative independence to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland, Newfndlnd

1931 Pierre Pilote Hockey Hall of Famer NHL Chicago Black Hawks defenseman was born

1932 San Francisco's coldest day (27øF).

1932 Snow falls in San Francisco

1936 King Edward VIII of England abdicates for woman he loves

1937 Italy withdraws from League of Nations

1939 Betty Grable and her famous legs were featured on the cover of LIFE magazine

1941 Buick lowered its prices to reflect the absence of spare tires or inner tubes from its new cars. Widespread shortages caused by World War II had led to many quotas and laws designed to conserve America's resources

1941 Germany and Italy declare war on US

1941 Japanese occupy Guam

1946 UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) established (Nobel 1965)

1951 Joe Dimaggio announces his baseball retirement

1953 KTVA, Anchorage becomes Alaska's first TV station

1954 USS Forrestal christened in Newport News, Va

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