| 1493 | | Christopher Columbus discovers Antigua during his second expedition. |
| 1556 | | The Englishman Richard Chancellor is drowned off Aberdeenshire on his return from a second voyage to Russia. |
| 1647 | | All Dutch-held area of New York are returned to English control by the treaty of Westminster. |
| 1775 | | U.S. Marine Corps founded. |
| 1782 | | In the last battle of the American Revolution, George Rodgers Clark attacks Indians and Loyalists at Chillicothe, in Ohio Territory. |
| 1871 | | Henry M. Stanley finds Dr. Livingstone at Ujiji near Unyanyembe in Africa. |
| 1879 | |
Little Bighorn participant Major Marcus Reno is
caught window-peeping at the daughter of his commanding officer--an offense for
which he will be court-martialed. |
| 1911 | | President Taft ends a 15,000-mile, 57-day speaking tour. |
| 1911 | | The Imperial government of China retakes Nanking. |
| 1917 | |
Forty-one US suffragettes are arrested protesting
outside the White House. |
| 1938 | | Fascist Italy enacts anti-Semitic legislation. |
| 1941 | |
Churchill promises to join the U.S. "within the
hour" in the event of war with Japan. |
| 1942 | |
Admiral Jean Darlan orders French forces in North
Africa to cease resistance to the Anglo-American forces. |
| 1952 | | U.S. Supreme Court upholds the decision barring segregation on interstate railways. |
| 1961 | | Andrew Hatcher is named associate press secretary to President John F. Kennedy. |
| 1962 | | Eleanor Roosevelt is buried, she had died three days earlier. |
| 1964 | |
Australia begins a draft to fulfill its commitment
in Vietnam. |
| 1969 | | The PBS children's program Sesame Street debuts. |
| 1971 | | Two women are tarred and feathered in Belfast for dating British soldiers, while in Londonderry, Northern Ireland a Catholic girl is also tarred and feathered for her intention of marrying a British soldier. |
| 1972 | | Hijackers divert a jet to Detroit, demanding $10 million and ten parachutes. |
| 1975 | | The iron ore freighter Edmund Fitzgerald breaks in half and sinks at the eastern end of Lake Superior--all 29 crew members perish. |
| 1986 | | President Ronald Reagan refuses to reveal details of the Iran arms sale. |
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