1542 – Catherine Howard was executed for adultery. She was the fifth wife of England’s King Henry VIII.<\/p>\n
1633 – Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before the Inquisition.<\/p>\n
1741 – “The American Magazine,” the first magazine in the U.S., was published in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n
1875 – Mrs. Edna Kanouse gave birth to America\u2019s first quintuplets. All five of the baby boys died within two weeks.<\/p>\n
1880 –\u00a0Thomas Edison\u00a0observed what became known as the Edison Effect for the first time.<\/p>\n
1889 – Norman Coleman became the first U.S. Secretary of Agriculture.<\/p>\n
1900 – The Anglo-German accord of 1899 was ratified by Reichstag, in which Britain renounced rights in Samoa in favor of Germany and the U.S.<\/p>\n
1914 – The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (known as ASCAP) were formed in New York City. The society was founded to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members.<\/p>\n
1920 – The League of Nations recognized the continued neutrality of Switzerland.<\/p>\n
1920 – The National Negro Baseball League was organized.<\/p>\n
1935 – In Flemington, New Jersey, a jury found Bruno Richard Hauptmann guilty of the kidnapping and death of the infant son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh. Hauptmann was later executed for the crimes.<\/p>\n
1937 – The comic strip “Prince Valiant” appeared for the first time.<\/p>\n
1939 – Virginia Payne became a new character in NBC\u2019s soap opera, “The Carter\u2019s of Elm Street”. She played the part of Mrs. Carter.<\/p>\n
1945 – During World War II, the Soviets captured Budapest, Hungary, from the German army.<\/p>\n
1945 – During World War II, Allied aircraft began bombing the German city of Dresden.<\/p>\n
1947 – “Family Theatre” was heard for the first time on Mutual radio.<\/p>\n
1955 – Israel acquired 4 of the 7 Dead Sea scrolls.<\/p>\n
1960 – France detonated its first atomic bomb.<\/p>\n
1965 – Sixteen-year-old\u00a0Peggy Fleming\u00a0won the ladies senior figure skating title at Lake Placid, NY.<\/p>\n
1971 – South Vietnamese troops invaded Laos. They were backed by U.S. air and artillery support.<\/p>\n
1984 – Konstantin Chernenko was chosen to be general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party’s Central Committee, succeeding the late Yuri Andropov.<\/p>\n
1985 – The Dow Jones industrial average closed at a record high of 1297.92 after it topped the 1300 mark earlier in the trading session.<\/p>\n
1990 – In Ottawa, the\u00a0United States\u00a0and its European allies forged an agreement with the Soviet Union and East Germany on a two-stage formula to reunite Germany.<\/p>\n
1991 – Hundreds of Iraqis were killed by two laser-guided bombs that destroyed an underground facility in Baghdad. U.S. officials identified the facility as a military installation, but Iraqi officials said it was a bomb shelter.<\/p>\n
1997 – Astronauts on the space shuttle Discovery brought the Hubble Space Telescope aboard for a tune-up. The tune-up allowed the telescope to see further into the universe.<\/p>\n
1997 – The Dow Jones industrial average passed the 7,000 marks for the first time. The day ended at 7,022.44.<\/p>\n
1999 – A bomb exploded just outside a government-owned bank in southern Kosovo. Nine people were killed.<\/p>\n
2000 –\u00a0Charles M. Schulz’s last original Sunday “Peanuts” comic strip appeared in newspapers. Schulz had died the day before.<\/p>\n
2001 – El Salvador was hit with an earthquake that measured 6.6 on the\u00a0Richter Scale. At least 400 people were killed.<\/p>\n
2002 – In Alexandria,\u00a0VA, John Walker Lindh pleaded innocent to a 10-count federal indictment. He was charged with conspiring to kill Americans and aiding Osama bin Laden’s terrorist network.<\/p>\n
2002 – Former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani received an honorary knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II.<\/p>\n
2008 – Roger Clemens denied having taken performance-enhancing drugs in testimony before Congress.<\/p>\n
2008 – Hollywood writers ended a 100-day strike.<\/p>\n
2010\u00a0\u2013\u00a0A bomb explodes\u00a0in the city of\u00a0Pune,\u00a0Maharashtra, India, killing 17 and injuring 60 more.<\/p>\n
2011\u00a0\u2013 For the first time in more than 100 years the\u00a0Umatilla, an\u00a0American Indian tribe, are able to hunt and harvest a\u00a0bison\u00a0just outside\u00a0Yellowstone National Park, restoring a centuries-old tradition guaranteed by a treaty signed in 1855.<\/p>\n
2012\u00a0\u2013 The\u00a0European Space Agency\u00a0(ESA) conducted the first launch of the European\u00a0Vega<\/i>\u00a0rocket from Europe’s spaceport in\u00a0Kourou, French Guiana.<\/p>\n
2017\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Kim Jong-Nam, brother of North Korean dictator\u00a0Kim Jong-Un, is assassinated at\u00a0Kuala Lumpur International Airport.<\/p>\n
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