0461 St Hilary begins his reign as Catholic Pope
0498 Anastasius II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1493 Christopher Columbus discovers Puerto Rico, on his 2nd voyage
1600 Charles I King of Great Britian is born at Dunfermline Scotland
1644 First Protestant ministry society in New England
1794 Jay Treaty, first US extradition treaty, signed with Great Britain
1850 Alfred Tennyson becomes England's Poet Laureate until his death in 1892
1863 Lincoln delivers his address in Gettysburg; "4 score and7 years..."
1874 William Marcy "Boss" Tweed, of Tammany Hall (NYC) convicted of defrauding the city of $6M, sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment
1879 National Assoc of Trotting Horse Breeders determines what "is" a trotter
1887 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of The Dying Detective" (BG)
1896 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of The Sussex Vampire" (BG)
1903 Carrie Nation attempts to address the Senate
1905 The British steamer S.S. Hilda sinks in the English Channel 100 loose their lives
1906 London selected to host 1908 Olympics
1917 Indian prime minister Indire Gandhi was born
1919 US Senate rejects (55-39) Treaty of Versailles andLeague of Nations
1941 HMAS SYDNEY (RAN) sunk in the Indian Ocean west of Shark Bay, Western Australia by torpedoes and 5.9in gunfire of German raider 'Kormoran'.
1942 American fashion designer Calvin Klein was born
1942 Russia launches winter offensive against Germans along the Don front
1945 Canadian rock star Neil Young was born
1947 200" mirror arrives at Mt Palomar
1949 Prince Rainier III coronation in Monaco
1959 Ford cancels the Edsel
1962 Jodie Foster was born
