1765 — People of Frederick County MD refuse to pay England's Stamp tax
1832 — French take Antwerp in liberation of Belgium
1835 — Henry Burden patents Horseshoe manufacturing machine, Troy, NY
1863 — Battle of Chattanooga begins
1868 — Louis Ducos du Hauron patents trichrome color photo process
1876 — Columbia, Harvard & Princeton form Intercollegiate Football Association
1899 — First jukebox (Palais Royal Hotel, San Francisco)
1936 — First issue of Life, picture magazine created by Henry R Luce
1943 — U.S. forces seized control of Tarawa & Makin from Japanese
1948 — Lens to provide zoom effects patented-FG Back
1955 — British transfer Cocos (Keeling) Is in Indian Ocean to Australia
1971 — China People's Republic seated in U.N. Security Council
1980 — 4,800 die in series of earthquakes that devastated southern Italy
1985 — Retired CIA analyst Larry Wu-tai Chin, arrested of spying for China