Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa founded, 1772
RMS Titanic found, 1985
Sir Richard Steele, English essayist, died, 1729
Germany invaded Poland, 1939
Pioneer 11 (US) made first flyby of Saturn, 1979
Prohibition Party formed, 1869
First female telephone operator (Emma M. Nutt), 1878
Grecian Mundane Era began, -5598
Jacques Cartier, French navigator and explorer, died, 1557
Pullman sleeping car debuted, 1859
Aaron Burr acquitted of conspiracy to commit treason, 1807
Passenger pigeon became extinct, 1914
Max speedometer reading mandated at 85 miles per hour, 1982
First US Federal tax on tobacco, 1862
First grand jury convened (Newe Towne, Massachusetts), 1635
Henry VI became English Sovereign, 1422
Bobby Fischer defeated Boris Spassky in World Chess Match, 1972
Lead in paint ruled to be illegal, 1977
Joshua A. Norton proclaimed himself ‘Emperor Norton I’, 1859
Lillian D. Wald, sociologist, died, 1940
A. Bartlett Giamatti, major league baseball commissioner, died, 1989
Charles A. Beard, US historian, died, 1948
Korean Air Lines flight 007 shot down by Russian fighter planes, 1983
Earthquake hit Japan (74,000 killed), 1923
Terrence Stanley Fox had to end his run across Canada for cancer, 1980
Colonel Moammar Gadhafi came to power, 1969
Keating-Owen Act (goods made with child labor banned from US interstate commerce), 1916
Graduated Tax on Beards imposed in Russia, 1689