1775 — Continental Congress approves resolution barring blacks from army
1790 — Slaves revolt in Haiti (later suppressed)
1888 — Pelham Bay Park in the Bronx, vested
1910 — Blanche Scott became first woman solo a public airplane flight
1915 — First national horseshoe throwing championship (Kellerton, Iowa)
1915 — 25,000 women march in NYC, demanding right to vote
1941 — Walt Disney's "Dumbo" released
1942 — During WW II, Britain launches major offensive at El Alamein, Egypt
1944 — Soviet army invades Hungary
1956 — Hungarian Revolution began
1958 — USSR lends money to UAR to build Aswan High Dam
1983 — Truck bomb in Beirut kills 241 U.S. soldiers
1990 — Iraq announces release of 330 French hostages