0532 Boniface II ends his reign as Catholic Pope

1346 David II of Scotland, in attempting a military diversion to relieve the siege of Calais, is wounded and captured by England's Edward III.

1492 Columbus sights isle of San Salvador

1662 England's King Charles II sells Dunkirk to the French.

1748 French troops lift siege of English at Pondicherry, India.

1777 British General John Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga, NY

1781 Cornwallis defeated at Yorktown

1787 Boston blacks, petition legislature for equal school facilities

1805 Napoleon breaks camp at Boulogne, proceeds by forced marches into Germany, forces the surrender October 17 at Ulm of a 30,000-man Austrian army under Baron Karl Mack von Leiberich, 53, and caps the victory by taking Vienna

1850 James Young obtains a patent for the extraction of paraffin from shale, the beginning of the paraffin industry in West Lothian

1854 Miners burn down Eureka Hotel, Ballarat, after court dismisses murder charges against hotelier James Bentley, accused of kicking a young miner to death

1854 The Australian newspaper The Age, is published for the first time in Melbourne

1855 Bessemer steelmaking process patented

1860 First pro golf tournament held in Scotland

1868 Constitution of Grand Duchy of Luxembourg comes into effect

1871 President Grant suspends writ of habeas corpus

1894 Ohio national guard kills 3 lynchers while rescuing a black man

1899 Sutro railroad sold to Robert F Morrow for $215,000

1904 Bank of Italy opens its doors

1912 Turkey declares war on Bulgaria and Serbia.

1913 Serbs invade Albania.

1917 First train over the Quebec Bridge over the St. Lawrence. This was constructed by the Dominion Government for use by the National Transcontinental Railway. This bridge was notorious in that it fell down twice during construction On August 29, 1907 the south cantilever arm collapsed killing 65 or more workmen.

1918 Yugoslavia proclaims itself a republic

1919 Radio Corporation of America (RCA) created

1931 Al Capone convicted of tax evasion, sentenced to 11 years in prison

1933 Albert Einstein arrives in the US, a refugee from Nazi Germany

1934 "The Aldrich Family" premieres on radio

1941 First US destroyer (Kearney) torpedoed in WW II, off Iceland

1945 Juan Peron becomes dictator of Argentina

1956 England's first large scale nuclear power station opens

1957 Britain's Queen Elizabeth & Prince Philip visit White House

1957 French author Albert Camus awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

1959 Queen Elizabeth is fined $140 for withdrawing her race horse

1961 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 33,100 m

1961 NY Museum of Modern Art hung Henri Matisse's "Le Bateau" upside-down, It wasn't corrected until December 3rd

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