Henry Morton Stanley found David Livingstone, 1871
Luna 17 (USSR) launched, 1970
Elvis Presley performed at the Boston Garden, 1971
Sesame Street first aired, 1969
Chuck Conners, actor (“The Rifleman”), died, 1992
Kentucky outlawed dueling, 1801
Ore carrier Edmund Fitzgerald sank (Lake Superior), 1975
US Marine Corps established, 1775
First English town in Connecticut founded (Saybrook), 1635
Microsoft Windows introduced, 1983
Queen’s College (now Rutgers University) chartered, 1766
Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet leader, died, 1982
Direct-dial, US coast-to-coast telephone service began, 1951
Hirohito enthroned as Emperor of Japan, 1928
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of the Turkish Republic, died, 1939
William Whipple, American patriot, died, 1785
Joseph Hewes, signer of the US Declaration of Independence, died, 1779
41 suffragettes arrested near White House, 1917
American Legion held its first national convention (Minneapolis), 1919
“Song of Hiawatha” won national acclaim, 1855