0640 John IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope

1584 Basque whaler Joanes de Echaniz dictates his last will and testament at Carol's Cove, near Red Bay Labrador, it is the oldest surviving will in Canadian history.

1781 Friedrich, Baron von Riedesel 1738-1800 erects Canada's first Christmas tree for the garrison in Fort Sorel, Quebec

1814 Treaty of Ghent (end of the War of 1812) signed

1851 Fire devastates Library of Congress in Washington destroys 35,000 volumes

1865 Several Confederate veterans form the Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski, Tn

1871 Giusseppi Verdi's "Aida" premieres in Cairo, at Suez canal opening

1874 Pope Pius IX proclaims a jubilee for 1875

1889 Bicycle with a back-pedal brake patented

1889 Daniel Stover and William Hance patent bicycle with back pedal brake

1905 Howard Hughes born

1906 Reginald A Fessenden became first to broadcast music over radio (Mass)

1910 Luisa Tetrazzini sings to 250,000 people at Lotta's Fountain

1919 John D. Rockefeller, the world's richest man, gave away one-hundred million dollars and I missed it

1920 Enrico Caruso gives his last public performance (New York NY)

1924 Albania becomes a republic

1933 Paris express train derails and kills 160, injures 300 (France) 1936 first radioactive isotope medicine administered, Berkeley, Ca

1942 First powered flight of V-1 buzz bomb, Peenemonde, Germany

1942 The department of National Defence says there are now 681,615 volunteers and conscripts in the Canadian forces.

1943 FDR appoints General Eisenhower supreme commander of Allied forces

1946 4th French republic established

1946 First Live Church Service Telecast

1948 Canada formally recognizes the state of Israel.

1948 First US house completely sunheated is occupied, Dover, Mass

1951 First televised opera (Amahl and the Night Visitor)

1951 United Kingdom of Libya gains independence from Italy via the UN

1953 2 fast express trains crash head-on killing 103 (Czechoslovakia)

1953 Wellington-Auckland (NZ) express train swept away in flood kills 166

1954 Laos gains its independence

1956 "I Love Lucy" Christmas show airs, never put in syndication

1964 Shooting begins on "The Cage" the pilot for Star Trek

1966 Luna 13 lands on Moon

1966 USAF C144 military charter crashes near Binh Thai Vietnam kills 129

1967 Pirate Radio Pegasus starts broadcasting off New Zealand

1968 Apollo 8 astronauts read passages from Book of Genesis

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