1665 The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published.
1687 William Stukeley (born), English antiquarian (died 1765)
1775 John Murray, the Royal Governor of the Colony of Virginia, starts the first mass emancipation of slaves in North America by issuing Lord Dunmore’s Offer of Emancipation, offering freedom to slaves who abandoned their colonial masters to fight with Murray and the British.
1786 The oldest musical organization in the United States is founded as the Stoughton Musical Society.
1867 Marie Curie (born), Polish chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1934)
1874 A cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper’s Weekly, is considered the first important use of an elephant as a symbol for the United States Republican Party.
1879 Leon Trotsky (born), Russian theorist and politician, founded the Red Army (died 1940)
1903 Konrad Lorenz (born), Austrian zoologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1989)
1908 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are reportedly killed in San Vicente, Bolivia.
1910 The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.
1912 The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven’s Fidelio.
1913 Albert Camus (born), French author, journalist, and philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1960)
1913 Alfred Russel Wallace (died), English biologist and geographer (born 1823)
1914 The first issue of The New Republic magazine is published.
1918 Billy Graham (born), American evangelist
1918 Influenza epidemic spreads to Western Samoa, killing 7,542 (about 20% of the population) by the end of the year.
1922 Al Hirt (born), American trumpet player (died 1999)
1926 Joan Sutherland (born), Australian soprano (died 2010)
1929 In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art opens to the public.
1933 Fiorello H. La Guardia is elected the 99th mayor of New York City.
1943 Joni Mitchell (born), Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt elected for a record fourth term as President of the USA
1949 The first oil was taken in Oil Rocks (Neft Daşları), oldest offshore oil platform.
1951 Lawrence O’Donnell (born), American journalist, actor, and producer
1956 United Nations General Assembly adopts a resolution calling for the United Kingdom, France and Israel to immediately withdraw their troops from Egypt.
1957 The Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters.
1962 Eleanor Roosevelt (died), American politician, 34th First Lady of the United States (born 1884)
1966 Calvin Borel (born), American jockey
1967 Carl B. Stokes is elected as Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the first African American mayor of a major American city.
1967 US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
1973 U.S. Congress overrides President Richard M. Nixon’s veto of the War Powers Resolution, which limits presidential power to wage war without congressional approval.
1980 Steve McQueen (died), American actor (born 1930)
1991 Magic Johnson announces that he is infected with HIV and retires from the NBA.
1994 WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, airs the world’s first internet radio broadcast.
2000 Controversial US presidential election that is later resolved in the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court Case.
2000 Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected to the United States Senate, becoming the first former First Lady to win public office in the United States, although actually she still was the First Lady.
2000 The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovers one of the country’s largest LSD labs inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas.
2001 Sabena, the national airline of Belgium, goes bankrupt
2002 Iran bans advertising of United States products.
2004 –The interim government of Iraq calls for a 60-day “state of emergency” as U.S. forces storm the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.
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