1604 — William Shakespeare's tragedy "Othello" first presented
1611 — Shakespeare's romantic comedy "The Tempest" first presented
1787 — First free school in NYC (African Free School) opens
1800 — First President to live in the white house (John Adams)
1848 — First U.S. women's medical school opens (Boston)
1870 — U.S. Weather Bureau begins operations (24 locations)
1922 — Ottoman Empire abolished
1939 — First animal conceived by artificial insemination (rabbit) displayed
1950 — Puerto Rican nationalists try to kill President Truman at the Blair House
1952 — Fusion occurred for the first time on Earth
1979 — Tanker Burmah Agate off Galveston Bay, Texas, spills 10.7 m gallons of oil, in U.S.'s worst oil spill disaster
1981 — Antigua & Barbuda gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1990 — Rhetoric escalates as Bush likens Saddam to Hitler
1993 — European Union comes into existence