1703 Bristol England damaged by hurricane, Royal Navy loses 15 warships

1716 The first lion exhibited in America (Boston)

1778 Capt Cook discovers Maui (Sandwich Islands)

1789 The first national thanksgiving

1793 Republican calendar replaces Gregorian calendar in France

1861 At Wheeling, a convention adopts a constitution for new state West Virginia

1865 Alice in Wonderland published

1885 The first meteor photograph

1895 Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association formed

1922 KING TUT'S tomb entered

1924 Mongolian People's Republic proclaimed

1938 Tina Turner born

1940 Nazis force 500,000 Warsaw Jews to live in walled ghetto

1941 Amateur tennis champ Bobby Riggs turns pro

1941 Lebanon gains independence from France

1941 Thanksgiving Holiday delcared by FDR

1945 During snow storm, school bus crashes, killing 15 (Washington)

1949 India adopts a constitution as a British Commonwealth Republic

1950 China enters Korean conflict, sends troops across Yalu River

1962 The first recording session under the name "Beatles"

1964 Nine helicopters of HU-2 and four from NAS Lakehurst, assisted the Coast Guard in the rescue of 17 men from the Norwegian tanker Stolt Dagali cut in two by collision with the Israeli liner Shalom off the New Jersey coast.

1965 France launches 1st satellite, 92 lb (42 kg) A1-capsule (Asterix)

1966 First major tidal power plant opens at Rance estuary, France

1966 The first major tidal power plant opens at Rance estuary, France

1969 Creams' final concert (Royal Albert Hall)

1973 Nixon's personal sec, Rose Mary Woods, tells a federal court she accidentally caused part of 18-minute gap in a key Watergate tape

1974 Approximately 140 die when suspension bridge collapses (Nepal)

1975 Fed jury found Lynette Fromme guilty of attempted assassination

1976 Ringo releases "Hey Baby" single

1978 10 die as fire erupts at Holiday Inn in Rochester, NY

1980 Columbia mated to SRBs &external tank at Vehicle Assembly Building

1982 Howard Cossell calls his last fight after being disgusted by the Larry Holmes-Tex Cobb mismatch

1982 Yasuhiro Nakasone elected PM of Japan succeeding Zenko Suzuki

1983 Heathrow Airport, robbed of 6,800 gold bars worth $38.7 million

1985 23rd Space Shuttle Mission (61-B)-Atlantis 2-is launched

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