1311 Council of Vienne opens

1775 Portland, Maine burned by British

1781 George Washington takes Yorktown

1841 Queens University in Kingston is chartered

1846 Dentist William T Morton demonstrated the effectiveness of ether

1849 Avery College establishes in Allegheny, Pennsylvania

1859 John Brown leads 20 in raid on federal arsenal, Harper's Ferry, Va

1861 Confedercy starts selling postage stamps

1867 Alaska adopts the Gregorian calendar

1869 Hotel in Boston becomes the first to have indoor plumbing

1916 Margaret Sanger opens first birth control clinic in Brooklyn

1923 Disney Company is founded

1925 Germany Weimar Republic signs Lucarno agreement guaranteeing as equal partner with Western European states the frontiers of Western Europe and that no country will attack or invade the other.

1925 Texas School Board prohibits teaching of evolution

1926 US Troop ship sinks in Yangtze River, killing 1,200

1931 Trunk murderess Winnie Ruth Judd kills her first victim

1940 Benjamin Oliver Davis Sr named first black general in regular army

1940 Lottery for first US WW II draftees held; #158 was drawn 1st

1940 Warsaw Ghetto established

1941 "Gordo" comic strip first appears in newspapers

1941 General Hideki Tojo takes over as Japanese Premier.

1941 Germany advances within 60 miles of Moscow

1942 Cyclone in Bay of Bengal kills 40,000 south of Calcutta India

1943 Chicago opens new subway system

1943 The Navy accepted its first helicopter, a Sikorsky YR-4B (HNS-1), at Bridgeport, Connecticut

1945 UN's Food & Agriculture Organization comes into existence

1946 10 Nazi leaders hanged as war criminals after Nuremberg trials

1952 Woolworth's opens in San Francisco at Powell & Market street

1957 Queen Elizabeth & Prince Philip visit Williamsburg Virginia

1962 Cuban missile crisis began as JFK becomes aware of missiles in Cuba

1964 China becomes world's 5th nuclear power

1969 Soyuz 6 (Russian) returns to Earth

1970 Anwar Sadat elected president of Egypt, succeeding Nasser

1972 The Commission of Inquiry in the Matter of the Employment Practices Relating to the Running-Trades' Employees in the Railway Industry, the Gallagher Commission publishes its report. This looked at the employment practices, particularly hours of work.

1973 Kissinger & Le Duc Tho jointly awarded Nobel peace prize

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