963 – Leo VIII elected Pope
1060 – Béla I of Hungary is crowned king of Hungary
1631 – First predicted transit of Venus (Kepler) is observed
1790 – The U.S. Congress moves from New York City to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1825 – Pres John Adams suggests establishment of a US observatory
1862 – Pres Lincoln orders hanging of 39 Santee Sioux indians
1865 – 13th Amendment of the United States Constitution is ratified, abolishing slavery
1877 – First sound recording made (Thomas Edison)
1877 – Washington Post publishes first edition
1884 – Aluminum capstone set atop Washington Monument, Wash, DC
1917 – French munition ship “Mont Blanc” explodes in Halifax, kills 1,700
1922 – First electric power line commercial carrier in US, Utica, NY
1923 – First US Presidential address broadcast on radio by President Calvin Coolidge
1933 – Ban on James Joyce’ “Ulysses” in US lifted
1941 – NYC Council agrees to build Idlewild (Kennedy) Airport in Queens
1957 – First US attempt to launch satellite fails-Vanguard rocket blows up
1964 – “Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer” First airs on TV
1969 – 300,000 attend Altamont California, rock concert feature Rolling Stones
1973 – Gerald Ford sworn-in as first unelected VP, succeeds Spiro T Agnew
1994 – Maltese Falcon auctioned for $398,590
1994 – Warner Brothers announces a fifth TV network to begin on Jan 11, 1995
2006 – NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars
2012 – 7 people are killed and 770 injured during Egyptian protests
2012 – A 243 million year old Nyasasaurus fossil is discovered in Tanzania
