1789-First U.S. electoral college chooses George Washington as President and John Adams as Vice President
1859-One of the oldest known copies of the Bible, "The Codex Sinaiticus" (Sinai Bible), is seen in Egypt by Constantin von Tischendorf who takes the manuscript home with him
1865-Robert E. Lee is named general-in-chief of Confederate forces
1969-The Palestine National Congress appoints Yasser Arafat chairman of the PLO
1988-Panamanian General Manuel Noriega indicted by U.S. federal grand jury for drug trafficking and racketeering
2004-Mark Zuckerberg launches Facebook from his Harvard dormitory room