0049 -BC- Julius Cesar crosses the Rubicon, invades Italy
1863-First underground railway opens in London
1870-John D Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil
1878-U.S. Senate proposes female suffrage
1928-Soviet Union orders exile of Leon Trotsky
1932-"Mickey Mouse" & "Silly Symphony" comics syndicated
1944-First mobile electric power plant delivered, Philadelphia
1946-U.N. General Assembly convenes for 1st time (London)
1964-Battles between Muslims & Hindus in Calcutta
1967-PBS (the National Educational TV) begins as a 70 station network
1971-Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Richard Wilbur
1979-First brother Billy Carter makes allegedly anti-Semitic remarks
1984-U.S. establishes full diplomatic relations with Vatican after 117 years
1990-China lifts martial law (imposed after Tiananmen Square massacre)
1991-Japan ends routine fingerprinting of all adult ethnic Koreans
1994-Trial of Lorena Bobbitt who cut off her husband's penis, begins
1994-Ukraine says it will give up world's 3rd largest nuclear arsenal
1996-Israel frees hundreds of Palestinian prisoners
1997-Right-winger Arnoldo Aleman sworn in as President of Nicaragua