845 – 845 : The first King of all Brittany, Nominoe defeats the Frankish king Charles the Bald at the Battle of Ballon near Redon.
1794 – Strasbourg Alsace-Lorraine, prohibits circumcision & wearing of beards
1809 – Peregrine Williamson of Baltimore patents a steel pen
1842 – Mount St Helens in Washington, erupts
1919 – Labor conference committee in US urges 8-hour work day and 48-hour week
1927 – First snowmobile patent granted to Carl Eliason
1935 – China Clipper (flying boat) took off from Alameda, California, carrying 100,000 pieces of mail on first trans-Pacific airmail flight
1950 – 79 die in a train crash in Richmond Hills NY
1963 – Beatles release their 2nd album “With the Beatles” in UK
1963 – President John F. Kennedy assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas. Lyndon B Johnson sworn in as the 36th US president
1967 – BBC unofficially bans “I Am the Walrus” by Beatles
1967 – Silver hits record $2.17 an ounce in New York
1967 – UN Sec council passes resolution 242-Israel must give back occupied land
1968 – First interracial TV kiss (Star Trek-Kirk and Uhura)
1977 – First three nodes of the ARPAnet are connected, in what would eventually become the Internet.
1989 – Conjunction of Venus, Mars, Uranus, Neptune, Saturn and Moon
1996 – OJ Simpson takes stand as hostile witness in the wrongful death lawsuit filed against him, saying it is “absolutely not true”
2002 – In Nigeria, more than 100 people are killed at an attack aimed at the contestants of the Miss World contest.
2005 – Angela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany\
