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1501 – Martin Luther, age 17, enters the University of Erfurt.
1514 – Pope Leo X issues a papal bull against slavery.
1639 Connecticut’s first constitution, the Fundamental Orders, was adopted.
1699 – Massachusetts holds day of fasting for wrongly persecuting “witches”
1784 The United States ratified a peace treaty with England ending the Revolutionary War.
1799 – Eli Whitney receives government contract for 10,000 muskets
1914 – Henry Ford introduces an assembly line for Model T Fords
1935 – Oil pipeline Iraq-Mediterranean goes into use
1943 – FDR and Churchill confer in Casablanca concerning WW II
1954 – The Hudson Motor Car Company merges with Nash-Kelvinator Corporation forming the American Motors Corporation.
1960 – US Army promoted Elvis Presley to Sergeant 1963 George C. Wallace was sworn in as governor of Alabama with a pledge of “segregation forever.”
1967 – The New York Times reports Army is conducting secret germ warfare experiments
1989 – 1,000 Muslims burn Salman Rushdies’ “Satanic Verses” in Bradford England
1990 – “Simpsons” premiered on Fox-TV
2005 Army Specialist Charles Graner Jr., the reputed ringleader of a band of rogue guards at the Abu Ghraib prison, was convicted at Fort Hood, Texas, of abusing Iraqi detainees. He was later sentenced to 10 years in prison.
2005 A European space probe sent back the first detailed pictures of the frozen surface of Saturn’s moon, Titan.
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