0741 St Gregory III ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1520 Ferdinand Magellan begins crossing Pacific Ocean
1582 William Shakespeare, 18, and Anne Hathaway, 26, pay a 40-pound bond for their marriage license in Stratford-upon-Avon.
1795 US pays $800,000 anda frigate as tribute to Algiers andTunis
1853 Olympia established as capital of Washington Territory
1861 Confederate congress officially admits Missouri to the CSA
1871 Ku Klux Klan trials began in Federal District Court in SC
1895 America's first auto race starts; 6 cars, 55 miles, winner averages 7 MPH
1908 154 men die in coal mine explosion at Marianna Pa
1919 Britain's House of Commons ceased being the exclusive domain of men when the first woman in British history was elected to a seat in Parliament
1919 US-born Lady Astor elected first female member of British Parliament
1922 Capt Cyril Turner (RAF) gave first skywriting exhibition (NYC). Turner spelled out "Hello USA. Call Vanderbilt 7200." 47,000 called
1925 Famed NHL goalie Georges Vezina collapses in a game and dies of TB 4months later
1929 Adm Richard E Byrd makes first South Pole flight
1929 Ernie Nevers scores all 40 pts for Chicago Cards vs Bears (NFL record)
1942 Nearly 500 die in a fire that destroyed Coconut Grove nightclub in Boston MA
1942 The first production Ford bomber, the B-24 Liberator, rolled off the assembly line at Ford's massive Willow Run plant in Ypsilanti, Michigan
1942 World War II saw the U.S. government ask its people to make a truly noble sacrifice--forgoing coffee. The government put the pinch to caffeine addicts across the nation, announcing coffee rationing to help aid the war effort.
1943 FDR, Churchill and Stalin met at Tehran to map out strategy
1948 "Hopalong Cassidy" premiers on TV
1958 Chad becomes an autonomous republic within the French community
1958 Congo and Mauritania become autonomous members of French Community
1958 George "Punch" Imlach becomes coach of NHL's Toronto Maple Leafs
1960 Mauritania gains independence from France (National Day)
1963 Beatles "She Loves You" returns to #1 on UK record chart
