1270 — Eighth & last crusade is launched
1888 — First ballpoint pen patented
1918 — Slovakia asks for creation of Czechoslovakian state
1922 — Mussolini forms cabinet in Italy
1930 — Turkey & Greece sign a treaty of friendship
1939 — USSR & Germany agree on partitioning Poland
1944 — Anne Frank (of Diary fame) is deported from Auschwitz to Belsen
1945 — U.S. government announces end of shoe rationing
1956 — Israel captures Egyptian militay post at El-Thamad
1961 — Soviet Union tests a 58 megaton hydrogen bomb
1988 — NY Jets finally beat Pittsburgh Steelers for first time
1991 — Mid East peace conference begins in Madrid Spain