1719 — First recorded display of Aurora Borealis in U.S. (New England)
1812 — First newspaper on Curaçao (Curaçao Gazette & Commercial Advertiser)
1816 — Indiana becomes 19th state
1844 — First dental use of nitrous oxide, Hartford CT
1866 — First yacht race across the Atlantic Ocean
1906 — U.S. President Roosevelt attacks abuses in the Congo
1914 — Stockton Street Tunnel (San Francisco) completed
1917 — German-occupied Lithuania proclaims independence from Russia
1930 — Bank of the United States opens in New York NY
1931 — British Statute of Westminster gives complete legislative independence to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland, Newfoundland
1934 — National League votes to permit night baseball (up to 7 games per home team)
1939 — New anti Jewish measurements in Poland, proclaimed
1941 — Germany & Italy declare war on U.S.
1941 — Japanese occupy Guam
1946 — U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) established (Nobel 1965)
1946 — Spain suspended from U.N.
1961 — JFK provides U.S. military helicopters & crews to South Vietnam
1967 — People's front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) established
1979 — Great Britain grants independence to Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)
1994 — Russian troops pull inside Tsjetsjenië