1349 - Jews of Freilsburg Germany are massacred
1713 - England & Netherlands sign 2nd anti-French boundary treaty
1774 - Captain Cook reaches 71º 10' S, 1,820 km from South Pole (record)
1879 - French President MacMahon resigns
1915 - German submarine attack on Le Havre
1922 - World Law Day, 1st celebrated
1931 - Charlie Chaplin's "City Lights" premieres at Los Angeles Theater
1934 - Hitler proclamation on German unified states
1941 - Australian troops conquer Derna Libya
1942 - Japanese troops land on Ambon
1943 - 6 British Mosquito's daylight bomb Berlin
1943 - German assault on French in Tunisia
1944 - U.S. invades Majuro, Marshall Islands
1948 - Mahatma Gandhi, India spiritual and political leader, assassinated by Hindu extremists in New Delhi, at age 78
1956 - Martin Luther King Jr's home bombed
1956 - Elvis Presley records his version of "Blue Suede Shoes"
1962 - U.N. General Assembly censures Portugal (because of Angola)
1976 - George Bush becomes 11th director of CIA (until 1977)