First Gilbert and Sullivan collaboration (Thespis), 1871
Mark Catesby, botanist, died, 1749
Thomas Malthus, English economist and author, died, 1834
Vincent Van Gogh cut off his ear, 1888
NBC established a permanent coast-to-coast radio hookup, 1928
Baseball “free-agency” created, 1973
Giovanni Cassini discovered a moon of the planet Saturn (Rhea), 1672
USS Relief, hospital ship, launched, 1919
Boogie-woogie, eight-to-the-bar bass introduced (Carnegie Hall), 1938
“Crisis” by Thomas Paine published, 1776
First submarine to be struck by an enemy submarine (Covina, US), 1943
Jack Webb, actor-writer-director, died, 1982
Crew of the captured spy ship Pueblo was released by North Korea, 1968
Transistor invented (William Shockley), 1947
Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, French designer of the Eiffel Tower, died, 1923
Congress passed the Metric Conversion Act, 1975
William Makepeace Thackeray, English novelist (Vanity Fair”), died, 1863
“A visit from Saint Nicholas” published, 1823
Tojo Hideki and six others hanged by the Allied War Crimes Commission, 1948
First penal colony in US established (Virginia), 1617
First train run west of Mississippi (Saint Louis to Cheltenham, Missouri), 1852
General George Washington resigned his commission, 1783
First non-stop, non-refueled flight around the world completed (216 hours), 1987
US Federal Reserve Banking System went into effect, 1913