0918 The German king Conrad I dies after a 7-year reign in which he has warred with the Danes, the Slavs, the Magyars, and the duke of Saxony

1122 The Holy Roman Emperor Henry V renounces the right of investiture with ring and crozier in the September 23 Concordat of Worms, recognizes freedom of election of the clergy, and promises to restore all church property

1779 John Paul Jones' "Bon Homme Richard" defeats 'HMS Serepis'

1780 British MAJ John Andre was apprehended as a Spy, near Tarrytown, NY

1803 The Battle of Assaye ends in victory for British forces under Arthur Wellesley, 34, brother of India's governor-general Richard Colley, first marquis Wellesley

1806 The Lewis and Clark expedition returns to St Louis after nearly 28 months of exploration

1845 First baseball team, NY Knickerbockers organize, adopt rule code

1846 Johann Gottfried Galle and Heinrich d'Arrest find Neptune

1862 Lincoln's Emancipation is published in Northern Newspapers

1863 Confederate siege of Chattanooga begins

1868 Grito de Lares proclaims Puerto Rico's independence (crushed by Spain)

1879 Baldwin steam motors tram first tried in Sydney Australia

1897 First frontier days rodeo celebration (Cheyene Wyoming)

1908 University of Alberta opens

1912 First Mack Sennett "Keystone Comedy" movie released

1926 Gene Tunney defeats Jack Dempsey for world heavyweight boxing title

1932 Kingdom of Hejaz andNejd renamed Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

1938 Time capsule, to be opened in 6939, buried at World's Fair in NYC (capsule contained a woman's hat, man's pipe and 1,100' of microfilm)

1941 First gassing experiments are made at Auschwitz.

1942 HMAS VOYAGER (RAN),lost in the East Indies, south coast of Timor ran aground, possibly bombed by Japanese aircraft (sources vary) and destroyed by own forces.

1949 Truman announces evidence of USSR's first nuclear device detonation

1952 First closed circuit pay-TV telecast of a sports event

1952 Richard Nixon makes his "Checker's" speech

1952 Rocky Marciano KOs heavyweight champ Jersey Joe Walcott in 13 for heavyweight boxing title

1961 First movie to become a TV series-How to Marry a Millionaire

1962 ABC's first color TV series-The Jetsons

1967 Radio Malta stops testing

1969 Northern Star starts rumor that Paul McCartney is dead

1973 Former Argentine President Juan Peron returns to power

1976 Ford-Carter TV debate

1976 Soyuz 22 returns to Earth

1977 3rd test of Space Shuttle Enterprise

1977 Cheryl Ladd replaces Farrah Fawcett on Charlie's Angels

1978 100,000 cheering Egyptians welcome Sadat home from Camp David summit

1979 Jane Fonda and 200,000 attend anti-nuke rally in Battery Park, NYC

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