1288 It becomes legal in Scotland for a woman to propose marriage to a man.
1504 Christopher Columbus uses a lunar eclipse to frighten hostile Jamaican natives into providing his crew with food.
1504 Columbus uses a lunar eclipse to frighten hostile Jamaican Indians
1528 Patrick Hamilton, student of Parid, Louvain, St Andrews, Marburg, Abbot of Fearn, burned at St Andrew for heresy, the first Reformation martyr in Scotland
1692 Sarah Good & Tituba, an Indian servant, accused of witchcraft, Salem
1696 English ex-premier Earl Danby accused of corruption
1704 French & Indians attack Deerfield MA, kill 50, abduct 100
1720 Queen Ulrica Eleonora of Sweden resigns
1784 Marquis de Sade transferred from Vincennes fortress to the Bastille
1796 Jay's Treaty proclaimed, settles some differences with England
1816 Dutch (King) Willem II marries Russian grand-duchess Anna Paulowna
1832 Charles Darwin visits jungle near Bahia Brazil
1848 Neufchatel declares independence of Switzerland
1856 Hostilities in Russo-Turkish War cease
1868 British government of Disraeli forms
1880 Gotthard railway tunnel between Switzerland & Italy opens
1892 Britain & US sign treaty on seal hunting in Bering Sea
1904 President Theodore Roosevelt appoints a seven-man commission to oversee completion of the Panama Canal.
1904 Theodore Roosevelt, appoints 7 man committee to study Panama Canal
1908 Dutch scientists produce solid helium
1932 Failed coup attempt by fascist Lapua Movement in Finland
1936 FDR signs 2nd neutrality act
1940 "Gone with the Wind," wins 8 Oscars
1940 Gone with the Wind picks up eight Academy Awards, including the Oscar for Best Picture.
1940 Hattie McDaniel becomes first black woman to win an Oscar
