1745 Hanovarian army under the command of John Cope were surprised and overwhelmingly defeated, in ten minutes, by the Jacobite forces of Prince Charles Edward Stewart in the Battle of Prestonpans
1776 Great fire in NY
1780 Benedict Arnold gives British Major Andr‚ plans to West Point
1784 The first daily newspaper in America is published in Philadelphia.
1792 The French National Convention votes to abolish the monarchy.
1860 In the Second Opium War, an Anglo-French force defeats Chinese troops at the battle of Baliqiao.
1863 Union forces retreat to Chattanooga after defeat at Chickamauga
1872 John Henry Conyers of SC becomes first black student at Annapolis
1893 Frank Duryea drives first US made gas propelled vehicle (car)
1895 The first auto manufacturer opens-Duryea Motor Wagon Company
1896 British force under Horatio Kitchener takes Dongola in the Sudan.
1897 "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus," begins the famous editorial response to 8-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon's letter in the New York Sun.
1897 NY Sun runs famous "Yes, Virginia there is a Santa Claus," editorial
1898 Tzu-Hsi, dowager Empress of China, seizes power and revokes reforms
1913 The first aerobatic maneuver, sustained inverted flight, performed in France
1915 Stones at Stonehenge, England, sold at auction for œ6,600
1921 Gas generator explodes at Bradishe Aniline chemical works in Germany
1922 Pres Warren G Harding signs a joint resolution of approval to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine
1930 Johann Ostermeyer patents the flashbulb
1931 Britain goes off the gold standard
1931 England goes off the gold standard.
1934 Typhoon strikes Honshu Island Japan, kills 4,000
1937 J.R.R. Tolkien, publishes "The Hobbit"
1938 Hurricane (winds 183 MPH) in New England kills 700
1938 More than 600 people are killed as a hurricane batters New England.
