1759-George Washington marries Martha Dandridge Curtis
1784-Turkey & Russia sign treaty in Constantinople
1838-Samuel Morse made 1st public demonstration of telegraph
1839-2 day storm off Irish & English coast immortalized as "The Big Wind"
1842-4,500 British & Indian troops leave Kabul, massacred before India
1873-Pope Pius IX encyclical "On the Church in Armenia"
1929-Alexander I establishes a royal dictatorship in Yugoslavia
1958-Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to ee cummings
1991-Real Life With Jane Pauley" premieres on NBC-TV
1994-Ice skater Nancy Kerrigan is attacked by Tonya Harding's bodyguard
1994-Yat Weiju swims world record 50m butterfly stroke (26.44)
1995-Atlanta Hawks' Lenny Wilkens becomes NBA's winningest coach (939)
1996-Record $65.2 million British lottery won by 3 people (2-3-4-13-42-44)
1997-"It's a Slippery Slope" closes at Vivian Beaumont Theater New York City NY