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

1963 Worst Canadian air disaster kills 118 in Montreal

1968 Army coup seizes power in Mali

1969 Apollo 12's Conrad andBean become 3rd and4th humans on the Moon

1970 Golden Gate Park Conservatory becomes a Cal state historical landmark

1971 Fort Wilderness opens

1976 George Harrison releases "This Song"

1977 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat arrives in Israel

1979 Chuck Berry released from prison on income tax evasion

1980 CBS TV bans Calvin Klein's jeans ad featuring Brooke Shields

1985 President Reagan andSoviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for first time

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