0969 Antioch falls to Byzantine forces after a long siege, ending 300 years of Arab rule in the Syrian city

1348 Third wave of the Great plague hits the Old World

1492 Christopher Columbus discovers Cuba

1683 Harvard College is founded in Massachusetts.

1726 Gulliver's Travels is published.

1776 Battle of White Plains; Washington retreats to NJ

1790 New York gives up claims to Vermont for $30,000

1793 Eli Whitney applies for a patent for his cotton gin (the patent is issued in March of 1794).

1886 President Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty, a gift from the people of France, in New York Harbor.

1886 Statue of Liberty dedicated by Pres Grover Cleveland, it is celebrated by the 1st confetti (ticker tape) parade in NYC

1890 The German East Africa Co. cedes all its territorial rights to the German government

1891 Quake strikes Mino-Owari, Japan kills 7,300

1900 After over 5 months the Paris Olympic games close

1904 St Louis police try a new investigation method-fingerprints

1914 Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, founded at Howard University, incorporates

1916 First conscription referendum in Australia and among forces overseas Proposal to introduce conscription defeated

1917 Prv. Cecil John Kinross (49th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Passchendaele, Belgium

1918 Czechoslovakia gains independence as Austria-Hungary breaks up

1919 Congress overrides the presidential veto of the Volstead Prohibition Act.

1919 Volstead Act passed by Congress, start prohibition over Wilson's veto

1922 Benito Mussolini takes control and brings fascism to Italy.

1922 The first coast-to-coast radio broadcast of a football game

1929 The first child born in aircraft, Miami, Fl

1936 FDR rededicates Statue of Liberty on its 50th anniversary

1938 Polish "Aktion." Thousands of Polish Jews are rounded up and sent back to the Polish border town of Zbonzyn. Poland expels all its German Jewish residents.

1939 The first Polish ghetto is established in Piotrkow, Poland.

1940 Greece successfully resists Italy's attack

1942 Train crashes into bus, killing 16 & injuring 20 (Detroit Michigan)

1946 German rocket engineers begin work in USSR

1948 Flag of Israel is adopted

1949 Eugenie Anderson, the first U.S. woman ambassador, is sworn in.

1953 Bud Grant of Winnipeg Blue Bombers intercepts 5 passes (record)

1958 Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli is elected Pope; he takes the name John XXIII.

1961 Ground broken for Municipal (Shea) Stadium for NY Mets

1962 Khrushchev orders withdrawal of missiles from Cuba, ending crisis

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