1455-First record of Johannes Gutenberg's Bible, letter dated this day by Enea Silvio Piccolomini refers to the bible printed a year before
1773-Jeanne Baptiste Pointe de Sable found settlement now known as Chicago
1790-French Revolution: The National Assembly issues a decree allowing for the sale of church land by French municipalities
1894-Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time in a candy store in Vicksburg, Mississippi
1918-Fearing foreign invasion Vladimir Lenin shifts revolutionary Russia's capital from Petrograd (St. Petersburg) to Moscow
1947-U.S. President Harry Truman introduces the Truman Doctrine to fight communism
1982-PLO chief Yassar Arafat appears on "Nightline" (ABC)
1993-317 killed by bomb attacks in Bombay
2004-Roh Moo-hyun, president of South Korea, is impeached by its National Assembly for the first time in the nation's history.
2011-A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant melts and explodes and releases radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after Japan's earthquake.