Oldest public school in US founded (Boston Latin School), 1635
Soviet forces captured Budapest, 1945
Alphonse Bertillon, inventor of Bertillon ID system, died, 1914
Apollo Computer Inc. incorporated, 1980
George Rogers Clark, American soldier and frontiersman, died, 1818
Mata Hari arrested as a German spy, 1917
Jesse James’ first bank robbery (Clay County Savings Bank, Liberty, Missouri), 1866
William and Mary became English Sovereigns, 1689
Konstantin U. Chernenko succeeded Yuri Andropov as Soviet Communist Party leader, 1984
First US state insurance regulation enacted, 1799
First magazine in US published (“American Magazine, or A Monthly View of the Political State of the British Colonies”), 1741
Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from Russia, 1974