1602-United Dutch East Indian Company (VOC) forms
1760-Great Fire of Boston destroys 349 buildings
1815-Napoleon enters Paris after escape from Elba, begins 100-day rule
1888-Start of the Sherlock Holmes Adventure, "A Scandal in Bohemia"
1931-Bishop Schreiber warns against national-socialism in Berlin
1942-General MacArthur vows, "I shall return"
1947-180-metric ton blue whale (record) caught in South Atlantic
1952-U.S. Senate's final ratification of peace treaty restoring sovereignty to Japan
1954-First newspaper vending machine used (Columbia, Pennsylvania)
1956-Tunisia gains independence from France
1956-USSR performs nuclear test
1969-John Lennon marries Yoko Ono in Gibraltar
1977-Parisians elect former Prime Minister Jacques Chirac as first mayor in a century
1987-Soviet filmmakers arrive in Hollywood for an entertainment summit