1613 - Shakespeare's Globe Theater burns down
1767 - British pass Townshend Revenue Act levying taxes on America
1858 - Treaty of Algun, China cedes north bank of Amur River to Russia
1913 - Beginning of the second Balkan War
1916 - Boeing aircraft flies for first time
1940 - U.S. passes Alien Registration Act requiring non-citizens to register with gov't
1946 - British arrest 2,700 Jews in Palestine as alleged terrorists
1949 - South Africa begins implementing apartheid; no mixed marriages
1949 - U.S. troops withdraw from Korea after WWII
1967 - Israel removes barricades, re-unifying Jerusalem
1969 - First Jewish worship service at White House
1976 - Seychelles gains independence from Britain
1977 - Supreme Court rules out death penalty for rapists of adult women
1990 - Marla Maples' father sues the National Enquirer for $12M