In 1713 The city of Baltimore is founded.
In 1737 An earthquake kills 300,000 at Calcutta, India.
In 1776 The first naval battle of Lake Champlain is fought during the
American Revolution. American forces led by General Benedict
Arnold suffered heavy losses, but managed to stall the British.
In 1779 Polish nobleman Casimir Pulaski is killed while fighting for
American independence during the Revolutionary War Battle of
Savannah, Georgia.
In 1811 The first steam-powered ferryboat, the Juliana, is put into
operation by inventor John Stevens in New York City.
In 1868 Thomas Edison filed for his first patent, for the Vote Recorder.
In 1890 The Daughters of the American Revolution is founded in
Washington, DC.
In 1910 Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first U.S. president to fly.
In 1919 The first in-flight meals are served aboard a Handley Page Transport
flight from London to Paris.
In 1932 The first political telecast in the U.S. takes place, as the
Democratic National Committee sponsored a program from a CBS-TV
studio in New York.
In 1936 The first radio quiz program, "Professor Quiz," premieres on CBS.
In 1938 Fiberglass is patented under the name "Glass Wool."
In 1942 The World War II Battle of Cape Esperance begins in the Solomons,
resulting in American victory over the Japanese.
In 1943 The New York Yankees win the World Series, defeating the St. Louis
Cardinals in game five, 2-0.
In 1958 Pioneer I is the first spacecraft launched by NASA. (It failed to go
as far out as planned, fell back to Earth, and burned up in the
atmosphere.)
In 1962 Pope John XXIII convenes the first session of the Roman Catholic
Church's 21st Ecumenical Council, also known as Vatican II.
In 1968 Apollo VII, the first manned Apollo mission, is launched with Wally
Schirra, Donn Fulton Eisele and R. Walter Cunningham.
In 1975 The comedy-variety series "Saturday Night Live" premieres on NBC
with George Carlin guest-hosting.
In 1977 Soyuz 25 returns to Earth.
In 1979 Allan McLeod Cormack and Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield are named
co-recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize for medicine for their work
in developing the CAT scan X-ray.
In 1980 Cosmonauts Popov and Ryumin set the space endurance record at
184 days.
In 1983 The last hand-cranked telephones in the U.S. go out of service as
440 telephone customers in Bryant Pond, Maine, switch to direct-dial
service.
In 1984 Kathy Sullivan, aboard the space shuttle Challenger, becomes the
first American woman to walk in space.
In 1984 Vice President George Bush and Democratic nominee Geraldine Ferraro
meet in their only debate of the 1984 campaign.
In 1985 Arab-American activist Alex Odeh is killed by a bomb blast in Santa
Ana, California.
In 1986 President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev open two days
of talks concerning arms control and human rights in Reykjavik,
Iceland.
In 1987 200,000 gays march for civil rights in Washington, DC.
In 1988 Violence subsides in Algeria, where rioting by youths had broken
out a week earlier, prompting the government to declare a state of
siege.
In 1989 The U.S. House of Representatives narrowly votes to add an amendment
to an appropriations bill restoring Medicaid funding for abortions
in cases of rape or incest.
In 1990 Octavio Paz is named the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for
literature, the first Mexican writer to be honored.
In 1990 About 60,000 people rally in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in support of a
government proposal to seize all Communist Party property without
compensation.
In 1991 Before the Senate Judiciary Committee, law professor Anita Hill
accused Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of having sexually
harassed her.
In 1992 President Bush, Democrat Bill Clinton and independent candidate Ross
Perot clash for 90 minutes in St. Louis over character and the
economy in the first presidential debate of the 1992 campaign.
In 1993 Yasser Arafat wins endorsement for his peace accord with Israel from
the Palestine Central Council.
In 1993 Army-backed toughs prevent American troops from landing In Haiti,
as part of a UN peace mission.
In 1994 U.S. troops take over Haiti's National Palace.
In 1994 The Colorado Supreme Court declares the state's anti-gay rights
measure unconstitutional.
In 1995 Israeli troops begin their West Bank pullback and release 881 of
1,000 Palestinian prisoners slated to be freed.
In 1995 Americans Mario Molina and Sherwood Rowland and Dutch scientist Paul
Crutzen win the Nobel Prize in chemistry for their controversial
work warning that certain gases were detroying Earth's ozone layer.
In 1997 Authorities report no survivors from the overnight crash of an
Argentine jetliner in Uruguay, which killed all 74 people on board.
In 1998 The Pope canonizes the first Jewish-born saint of modern era: Edith
Stein, a Catholic nun killed at Auschwitz.
In 2000 A state judge orders the recall of as many as 1.7 million Ford cars
and trucks in California.
In 2002 The Senate joins the House in approving, 77-23, the use of
America's military might against Iraq.
In 2002 Former President Carter wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
In 2003 Ivan A. Getting, a Cold War scientist who conceived the Global
Positioning Satellite system, dies at age 91.
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