1679-King Charles II disbands English parliament
1839-Charles Darwin elected member of Royal Society
1922-Minus 54ºF (-48ºC), Danbury WI (state record)
1922-Eskimo Pie patented by Christian K Nelson of Iowa (not an Eskimo)
1924-Russian city of St. Petersburg renamed Leningrad
1943-Hitler orders nazi troops at Stalingrad to fight to death
1943-Jewish patients/nurses/doctors incinerated at Auschwitz-Birkenau
1960-Algeria uprises against French President De Gaulle
1962-Jackie Robinson is first Black elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1964-24th Amendment to U.S. Constitution goes into effect & states voting rights could not be denied due to failure to pay taxes
1969-Spanish General Franco announces state of emergency
1979-U.S .performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1983-Hulk Hogan pins the Iron Sheik for World Wrestling Federation title
1984-Apple Computer Inc unveils its Macintosh personal computer
1989-First reported case of AIDS transmitted by heterosexual oral sex
1990-Japanese MUSES-A (Hiten) launched towards moon
1993-Soyuz TM-16 launches