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

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

1944 5 leaders of Indonesia Communist Party sentenced to death

1944 US troop land on Los Negros, Admirality Islands

1948 Stern-group bomb Cairo-Haifa train, 27 British soldiers died

1952 Dick Button wins his 5th consecutive world figure skating title

1952 Ice Dance Championship at Paris France won by Westwood & Demmy Great Britain

1952 Ice Pairs Championship at Paris won by Ria Falk & Paul Falk of Germany

1952 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by Jacqueline du Bief of France

1952 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by Richard Button USA

1956 Islamic Republic established in Pakistan

1956 President Eisenhower announces he would seek a 2nd term

1960 Earthquake kills 1/3 of Agadir Morocco population (12,000) in 15 seconds

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