655 – Battle of Winwaed: Penda of Mercia is defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria.
1492 – Christopher Columbus notes first recorded reference to tobacco
1532 – Pope Clemens VII tells Henry VIII to end relationship with Anna Boleyn
1660 – First kosher butcher (Asser Levy) licensed in New Amsterdam
1813 – Tax revolt in Amsterdam
1827 – Creek-Indians lose all their property in US
1835 – Charles Darwin reaches Tahiti on board HMS Beagle
1849 – First poultry show opens in Boston
1899 – Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill captured by Boers in Natal
1920 – League of Nations holds first meeting, in Geneva
1939 – Social Security Administration approves first unemployment check
1940 – Midtown tunnel linking Manhattan and Queens opens to traffic
1941 – Cow Palace opens in San Francisco
1956 – Elvis Presley’s first film “Love Me Tender” premieres in NYC
1960 – USS G Washington, first sub with nuclear ballistic missiles, launched
1965 – Craig Breedlove sets land speed record (600.601 mph)
1969 – 250,000 peacefully demonstrate in Wash DC against Vietnam War
1969 – Janis Joplin, accused of vulgar and indecent language in Tampa, Fla
1969 – Wendy’s Hamburgers opens
1971 – Intel advertises 4004-processor
1977 – President Jimmy Carter welcomes Shah of Iran
1979 – British government identifies Sir Anthony Blunt, art advisor to the Queen, as 4th man in Soviet spy ring
1979 – A package from the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.
1982 – Funeral service held in Moscow’s Red Square for Leonid Brezhnev
1985 – A research assistant is injured when a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes.
1990 – President George H.W. Bush signs Clear Air Act of 1990
2005 – Boeing formally launches the stretched Boeing 747-8 variant with orders from Cargolux and Nippon Cargo Airlines.
2012 – Deep Horizon Oil Spill: BP settles for $4.5 Billion
