1718 Blackbeard the Pirate killed on North Carolina shore
1809 Peregrine Williamson of Baltimore patents a steel pen
1842 Mount St Helens in Washington, erupts
1851 The opera "La Perle Du Br‚sil" is produced (Paris)
1884 T Thomas Fortune starts NY Freeman (NY Age) newspaper
1886 Victoria Street Cable Tram route begins in Melbourne, Australia
1890 Charles DeGaulle born
1898 The opera "Iris" is produced (Rome)
1899 Hoagy (Hoagland) Carmichael (songwriter Stardust)
1906 International Radio Telecommunications Com adopts "SOS" as new call for help
1910 Arthur Knight patents steel shaft golf clubs
1914 Lew Hays (founder of PONY League baseball for youngsters)
1917 National Hockey Association disbands
1917 NHL founded with Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Maroons, Toronto Arenas, Ottawa Senators andQuebec Bulldogs
1921 Rodney Dangerfield (Jacob Cohen) ("I Don't Get No Respect" comedian, actor Caddyshack, Easy Money, Back to School, Natural Born Killers, The Dean Martin Show)
1922 Library Ave in the Bronx named
1923 Arthur Hiller (director The Americanization of Emily, Author! Author!, Man of La Mancha, Plaza Suite, The Silver Streak)
1923 Coolidge pardons WW I German spy Lothar Witzke, sentenced to death
1924 England orders Egyptians out of Sudan
1924 Geraldine Page (Academy Award-winning actress The Trip to Bountiful [1985])
1926 Lew (Selva Lewis) Burdette, Jr. (baseball Milwaukee Braves)
1927 Carl Eliason of Sayner, Wisconsin, was granted the first patent ever given for a snowmobile design on this day.
1928 "Bolero" by Maurice Ravel, first performed publicly, in Paris
1932 Pump patented that computes quantity and price delivered
1932 Robert Vaughn (actor The Man from U.N.C.L.E.)
