1895-First U.S. patent granted for auto (George B. Selden)
1912-Woodrow Wilson (D) beats Theodore Roosevelt (Prog) & President Taft (R)
1914-Britain annexes Cyprus
1935-Parker Brothers launches game of Monopoly
1946-John F Kennedy (D-MA) elected to House of Representatives
1955-New Vienna Opera house opens (Austria)
1973-BART starts San Francisco-Daly City train shuttle service
1978-Iranian PM Jaafar Sharif-Emami resigns to Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
1987-Iceberg twice the size of Rhode Island sighted in Antarctic
1988-Japan beats MLB all stars 2-1 in Tokyo (Game 1 of 7)