On this day...
1670-Roman Catholic emperor Leopold I chases Jews out of Vienna
1889-First trainload of fruit (oranges) leaves Los Angeles for the east
1899-U.S. Congress begins using voting machines
1918-USSR adopts New Style (Gregorian) calendar
1924-IBM Corporation founded by Thomas Watson
1946-Bank of England nationalized
1954-Senator John Kennedy appears on "Meet the Press"
1956-Khrushchev denounces Stalin at USSR Communist Party Conference
1962-First lady Jacqueline Kennedy conducts White House tour on TV
1967-Aretha Franklin records "Respect"
1967 Latin American nuclear free zone proposal drawn up
1971-Richard Nixon installs secret taping system in White House
1984-Singer Elton John marries Renate Blauel in Sydney Australia
1985-Hostage CNN reporter Jeremy Levin is released in Beirut
1989-Robin Givens is granted a divorce from Mike Tyson in Dominican Republic
1989-Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 million damages for Bhopol disaster
1989-African National Congress (ANC) opens office in Amsterdam
1989-Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini offers $1 million-$3 million bounty on Salman Rushdie's death due to his novel, "Satanic Verses"
198-World's first satellite Skyphone opens
1990-Space probe Voyager 1 takes photograph of entire solar system
1991-Air raid shelter at Baghdad bombed killing 300
1993-Fire in Linxi department store in Tangshan, China, kills 79