1483 Rabbi Issac Abarbanel starts his exegesis on the Bible

1775 Continental Congress orders construction of a naval fleet

1792 Washington lays cornerstone of the Executive Mansion (White House)

1812 Battle of Queenston Heights

1843 B'nai B'rith founded in NY

1845 Texas ratifies a state constitution

1860 First aerial photo taken in US (from a balloon), Boston

1914 The Algoma Central and Hudson Bay Railway is opened throughout between Sault Ste. Marie and Hearst, Ont. Construction was started in 1899 and it was opened in stages as follows Hawk Junction (junction with the Michipicoten Branch) - 1911. Franz, (crossing with CP) - mid 1912. Oba (crossing with CN) - late 1912. . The name was shortened to Algoma Central in 1965.

1919 Race riot at Elaine Arkansas

1943 Italy declares war on former ally Germany

1943 Of 600 prisoners in Sobibor's Camp #1 who revolt and try to escape, most eventually are caught and killed.

1944 US First army begins battle of Aachen

1953 Burglar alarm-ultrasonic or radio waves-patented-Samuel Bagno

1957 German Dem Rep recalls the East Mark and issues new currency

1960 3rd presidential debate with Nixon in Hollywood and Kennedy in NY

1962 "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" opens on Broadway, with Uta Hagen

1963 "Beatlemania" is coined after the Beatles appear at the Palladium

1964 Voskhod 1 crew returns

1969 Soyuz 8 is launched

1970 Angela Davis arrested in NYC

1972 Aeroflot Il-62 crashes in large pond outside Moscow, 176 die

1972 Uruguay to Chile plane crashes in Andes Mountain, (12/23 rescue)

1978 James Earl Ray, assassin of Martin Luther King weds Anna Sandhu

1978 Tiros N, US's First 3rd generation weather satellite, is launched

1981 Vice President Hosni Mubarak elected president of Egypt

1982 IOC restores 2 gold medals from 1912 Olympics to Jim Thorpe

1987 Costa Rican Pres Oscar Arias wins Nobel Peace Prize

1987 First military use of trained dolphins (US Navy in Persian Gulf)

1988 Concert at Masada ends Israel's 40th-anniversary fest

1989 Dow Jones down 190.58 points

1399 British king Henry IV's coronation

1964 The world's first Russian three man spacecraft returns safely to Earth

1987 Shares on the 'Wall Street' stock exchange plunge to record lows

1921 The birth of Yves Montand, French actor and singer

1925 The birth of Margaret Thatcher, Now 'Baroness' Thatcher; former British Prime Minister

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