1278 680 Jews arrested (293 hanged) in England for counterfeiting coins

1745 Prince Charles Edward Stewart, accompanied by pipers, entered Carlysle following the surrender of the city to the Jacobite Army.

1796 Battle of Arcole-Napoleon I's French forces beat Austrians in Italy

1800 Congress held first session in Washington DC

1842 Fugitive slave George Latimer, captured in Boston

1862 Confederate Secretary of War George B Randolph resigns

1869 Suez Canal opens (Egypt)

1889 Union Pacific begins daily through service, Chicago-Portland and San Francisco

1934 Lyndon B Johnson marries Claudia Alta Taylor

1937 Britain's Lord Halifax visits Germany, beginning of appeasement

1938 Italy passes their own version of the anti-Jewish Nuremberg laws

1945 New world air speed record 606 mph (975 kph) set by HJ Wilson of RAF

1948 Britain's House of Commons votes to nationalize steel industry

1964 Helicopters of HMM-162 from Princeton, began delivery of 1,300 tons of food and clothing to people in the inland areas of South Vietnam flooded by heavy rains following a typhoon.

1966 Leonids meteor shower peaks (150,000+ per hour)

1967 Beatles Ltd and Apple Music Ltd swap names

1967 Surveyor 6 becomes first man-made object to lift off the Moon

1970 Russia lands Lunokhod 1 unmanned remote-controlled vehicle on Moon

1973 President Nixon told AP "...people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook"

1977 Egyptian President Sadat formally accepts invitation to visit Israel

1988 Benzir Bhutto wins election in Pakistan

1993 US Congress votes for NAFTA

1800 The United States Congress meets for the first time

1869 After work lasting ten years, the 100 mile long Suez Canal opens

1937 The birth of Peter Cook, British comedian

1942 The birth of Martin Scorsese, American director

2006 U.S. comedian and actor Michael Richards launches a racially charged tirade at hecklers during a performance at the Laugh Factory in Los Angeles. Sony launches its next-generation console, the PlayStation 3, in North America.

2007 Parliamentary elections in Kosovo.

2007 Parliamentary elections in Kosovo.