1656 All female jury hears case of woman who killed her child (acquit her)
1692 Last person hanged for witchcraft in US
1756 Nassau Hall opens at Princeton University
1776 American patriot, captain Nathan Hale executed for spying
1784 Russian trappers established a colony on Kodiak Island, AK
1789 Office of Postmaster General of the US established by Congress
1791 Michael Faraday (chemist, physicist) born
1792 Origin of French Republican Era
1863 President Lincoln makes his Emancipation Proclamation speech
1868 Race riots in New Orleans La
1869 The opera "Das Rheingold" is produced (Munich)
1883 The Grand Trunk Railway acquires the 452 mile Midland Railway.
1903 Italo Marchiony granted patent for the ice cream cone
1905 Race riot in Atlanta Georgia (10 blacks & 2 whites killed)
1911 Cy Young at 44, wins his 511th & final game
1913 Coal mine explosion kills 263 at Dawson New Mexico
1914 German U-Boat, the U-9, sunk three British cruisers in the North Sea
1915 Southern Methodist University (Dallas Texas) holds its first class
1919 Steel strike begins in US
1927 Famous "Long count" fight (Dempsey loses boxing title to Tunney)
1937 Forest fire kills 14 & injures 50 in Cody Wyoming
1943 U.S. destroyers and landing craft land Australian troops at Finschhafen, New Guinea.
1944 Boulogne reoccupied by Allies
1946 Evelyn Dick charged with butchering husband
1949 USSR detonates its first atomic bomb
