1746 Princeton University (NJ) received its charter

1797 Andr,-Jacques Garnerin makes first parachute jump from balloon (Paris)

1797 The First Parachute Jump from hot air balloon over Paris

1875 Sons of the American Revolution organized

1883 First NY Horse Show held in Madison Square Gardens

1883 Original Metropolitan Opera House in New York grand opening (Faust)

1906 3000 blacks demonstrate & riot in Philedalphia

1934 Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd, the notorious bank robber and folk hero dies - shot by FBI

1936 First commercial flight from mainland to Hawaii

1938 First Xerox copy made

1940 HMCS MARGAREE (RCN , ex 'Diana'), lost west of Ireland by collision with SS 'Port Fairy'.

1946 Corporal J R Sewell, 10th Australian Bomb Disposal Platoon, BCOF, is awarded the George Medal for his rescue of Japanese survivors after an explosion in a boat carrying high explosives

1949 200 killed in train derailment in Poland

1953 Laos gains full independence from France

1954 West Germany joins North Atlantic Treaty Organization

1962 Cuban Missile Crisis begins

1962 JFK imposes naval blockade on Cuba, beginning missile crisis

1963 225,000 students boycott Chicago schools in Freedom Day protest

1966 USSR launches Luna 12 for orbit around Moon

1968 Apollo 7 returns to Earth

1973 Security Council Resolution 338 -c ease fire to the Yom Kippur War

1975 Soviet spacecraft Venera 9 soft-lands on Venus

1975 World Football League disbands

1977 International Sun-Earth Explorers 1 & 2 launched into Earth orbit

1978 Laugh-in's Judy Carne arrested at Gatwick Airport for drug possession

1979 Deposed Shah of Iran arrives in NY for medical treatment

1979 Ousted Shah of Iran arrives in New York for cancer treatment

1979 Walt Disney World's 100-millionth guest

1980 New South Korean constitution comes into effect

1981 Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization decertified

1981 US national debt tops $1 trillion

1988 Elton John sells out Madison Square Gardens for a record 26th time

1991 General Motors announces 9 month loss of $2.2 billion

1994 Pablo Gonzalez Zamorano, born at Iquique (Chile)

1962 Nelson Mandella goes on trial for treason in South Africa

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