1765 People of Frederick County MD refuse to pay England's Stamp tax

1848 Female Medical Educational Society founded in Boston

1859 Billy the Kid William Bonney or Henry McCarty the outlawwas born

1860 With the "Banking Panic" of 1857 stretching into another decade and showing few signs of lifting, the New York Clearing House moved to offer help on this day, the Clearing House handed out its first loan, issuing $7.375 million worth of certificates to the nation's ailing banks.

1863 Battle of Chattanooga begins

1863 Patent granted for a process of making color photographs

1868 Louis Ducos du Hauron patents trichrome color photo process

1876 Columbia, Harvard &Princeton form Intercollegiate Football Association

1876 The first intercollegiate football association was established -- in Springfield, MA.

1887 Boris Karloff (William Henry Pratt)was born actor Frankenstein, The Bride of Frankenstein, House of Frankenstein, Son of Frankenstein, Die

1887 The University of Michigan beat Notre Dame (8-0) for the first time in their football rivalry.

1889 The first ‘Nickel-in-the-Slot’ (jukebox) was placed in service on this day in the Palais Royal Saloon in San Francisco, California. Juke, at the time, was a slang word for a a disorderly house, or house of ill repute.

1890 Willem III of the Netherlands dies at age 73

1893 Harpo (Adolph) Marx comedian was born

1897 Eli Olds of Lansing, Michigan, is issued a U.S. patent for his "motor carriage," a gasoline-powered vehicle that he constructed the year before.

1899 The first jukebox (Palais Royal Hotel, San Francisco)

1901 Lieutenant LC Maygar, 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles, becomes the sixth and last Australian to be awarded a Victoria Cross in the Boer War

1903 Enrico Caruso, famed Italian tenor, made his debut in the United States at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. He sang in the role of the Duke in Rigoletto.

1904 3rd Olympic games close in St Louis

1905 Henry Watson Furness, an Indiana physician, named minister of Haiti

1909 18.2 cm (7.17") of rainfall, Rattlesnake Creek, Idaho (state record)

1911 Post Hospital at Presidio, San Francisco renamed Letterman General Hospital

1929 Shirley Booth and Ed Gardner were married on this day. Miss Booth was famous for her television acting role ("Hazel");

1936 The first issue of LIFE magazine debuted. It was an immediate sellout. The cover of that famous magazine showed an obstetrician slapping a baby and the caption read, “LIFE begins”.

1938 Bob Hope and Shirley Ross recorded a song for the film, The Big Broadcast of 1938. Thanks for the Memory became Decca record number 2219. It also became Hope’s theme song.

1939 Wearing distinctive armband, "Judenstern" (Jewish star) becomes obligatory for all Jews in Central Poland.

1942 Coast Guard Woman's Auxiliary (SPARS) authorized

1942 Steward Poon Lim set adrift for 133 days after his boat was torpedoed

1942 The V-173, a full-scale model of a fighter aircraft with an almost circular wing, made its first flight at the Vought-Sikorsky plant, Stratford, Conn. A military version of this aircraft, the XF5U-1, was constructed later but never flown.

1943 For the second straight day, British bombers attacked Berlin, recording 1,315 civilian deaths. The two-day bombing resulted in a total of over 4,000 Berliner deaths. British aircrew deaths from the attacks neared 300.

1943 On this day, 200 German soldiers surrounded the house where British agent Michael Trotobas was hiding. Trotobas shot and killed the Gestapo officer who had come to arrest him, then kept firing until he was gunned down himself

1943 US forces seized control of Tarawa &Makin from Japanese

1945 Steve Landesberg actorwas born Barney Miller

1945 Susan Anspach actresswas born Five Easy Pieces, Play It Again, Sam, The Yellow Rose, The Slap Maxwell Story

1948 Formation of the Australian Regiment, which becomes the Royal Australian Regiment (RAR) on 10mar1949

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