1382 St. Mary's College is founded at Westminster, England.

1600 Battle of Sekigahara sets Tokugawa clan as Japan's rulers (shoguns)

1740 Maria Theresa became ruler of Austria, Hungary & Bohemia

1803 US Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase

1813 German Kingdom of Westphalia abolished

1847 Little William Nelman poisons his grandfather

1883 Treaty of Ancon, Peru cedes Tarapaca to Chile

1890 Pike's Peak railroad completed.

1891 First International 6 day bike race begins in New York

1898 NC Mutual & Provident Insurance Company forms

1903 US wins disputed boundary between the District of Alaska & Canada

1905 Great General Strike in Russia begins; lasts 11 days

1906 Dr Lee DeForest demonstrates his radio tube

1911 Amundsen sets out on race to South Pole

1929 Bayshore Highway opens in San Francisco

1930 British White Paper restricts Jews from buying Arab land

1944 30 blocks of Cleveland Ohio burn after a liquid gas factory explodes

1944 General Douglas MacArthur keeps his famous promise and returns to the Philippines.

1944 Revolution by workers & students in Guatemala

1947 HUAC opens hearings into alleged Communist influence in Hollywood

1955 Day-O is released by Harry Belafonte. It was later renamed to The Banana Boat Song.

1956 Hannes Lindemann begins journey across Atlantic in a 17 foot craft

1960 First fully mechanized post office opened, Providence, RI

1963 South Africa begins trial of Nelson Mandela & 8 others on conspiracy

1964 Herbert Hoover, former U.S. president, dies.

1964 Riot at Rolling Stones show in Paris (150 arrested)

1967 All white federal jury convicts 7 in murder of 3 civil rights workers

1968 Jacqueline Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis.

1973 OPEC oil embargo begins

1976 70 die as Norwegian tanker Frosta collides with George Prince

1977 3 members of rock group Lynyrd Skynyrd die in charter plane crash

1979 John F Kennedy Library dedicated in Boston

1981 3 members of Weather underground arrested for armored truck robbery

1983 IBM-PC DOS Version 2.1 released

1987 10 die as Air Force jet crashed into a Ramada Inn near Indianapolis

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