First “The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour” aired, 1957
Catherine the Great died, 1796
First hydrogen bomb exploded (Eniwetok Atoll), 1952
Bolshevik revolution began, 1917
Electric shaver patented (Colonel Jacob Schick), 1928
Tammany Hall beaten in New York, 1894
William Hone, English author and bookseller, died, 1842
Japanese troops captured Tsing-Tau, 1914
Heinrich Schutz, “father of German music,” died, 1672
Vietnam War Peace Talks began (Paris), 1968
Black-footed ferret (thought extinct) captured in Wyoming, 1981
Ronald Reagan elected to a second term, 1984
First day of shooting on “The Man with the Golden Gun”, 1973
Richard Nixon elected 37th US president, 1968
First formal intercollegiate football game (Rutgers 6, Princeton 4), 1869
Gustavas Adolphus, Swedish King, killed, 1632
Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi promised to “make up for past mistakes”, 1978
Abraham Lincoln elected 16th US president, 1860
Sister Maria Innocentia Hummel, artist who inspired Hummel figurines, died, 1946
James Naismith, basketball inventor, died, 1936