1909-U.S. invades Nicaragua, later overthrows President Zelaya
1913-Lincoln Deachey performs 1st airplane loop-the-loop (San Diego)
1926 Pope Pius XI encyclical On the persecution of the Church in Mexico
1928-Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse debuts in NY in "Steamboat Willie"
1932-"Flowers & Trees" receives 1st Academy Award for a cartoon
1949-Jackie Robinson, Brooklyn Dodgers, named NL's MVP
1961-U.S Ranger 2 launched to Moon; failed
1964-J. Edgar Hoover describes Martin Luther King as "most notorious liar"
1970-Russia lands self-propelled rover on the Moon
1976 Spain's parliament establishes democracy after 37 years of dictatorship
1976-Yanks sign free agent Don Gullett
1987-31 die in a fire at King's Cross, London's busiest subway station
1990-Saddam offers to free an estimated 2,000 men held in Kuwait