George Halas, owner of Chicago Bears, died, 1983
Mount Rushmore completed, 1941
Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, killed, 1984
King’s College chartered, 1754
Printed streetcar transfer first used (Rochester, New York), 1892
River Phoenix, actor, died., 1993
Harry Houdini (Ehrich Weisz), magician and escape artist, died, 1926
Nevada became the 36th US state, 1864
Lyndon Johnson announced a halt to the bombing of North Vietnam, 1968
Federico Fellini, film director, died, 1993
Martin Luther nailed 95 Theses to door of Wittenberg’s Palace church, 1517
Johannes Sleidanus, German historian, died, 1556