Britain and France declared war on Russia, 1854
Maria von Trapp died, 1987
James Francis Thorpe, Olympic athlete, died, 1953
36 tornadoes in Carolinas, 1984
“The Avengers” first came to US prime time, 1966
Vesta (asteroid) discovered, 1807
Digital Equipment Corporation announced PDP-11, 1970
Mt. Kilauea (Hawaii) erupted, 1983
Three Mile Island nuclear power plant accident, 1979
Boston subway construction began, 1895
P.T. Barnum became partners with James A. Bailey, 1881
Marc Chagall, French painter, died, 1985
Dwight David Eisenhower, 34th US president, died, 1969
Sergei Rachmaninoff, composer, died, 1943
NOAA 8 (US), search and rescue satellite, launched, 1983
Virginia Woolf, British writer, died, 1941
First bilingual congressional committee report issued, 1978
Pertinax, Roman emperor, assassinated, 193
Stephen Leacock, Canadian economist and humorist, died, 1944
Pallas (asteroid) discovered (Olbers), 1802
Earliest “ice-out” at Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire, 1921
Battle of Glorietta Pass (New Mexico), 1862
Constantinople and Angora changed names to Istanbul and Ankara, 1930
Yuri Gagarin, first man in space, died, 1968
Patent for the first washing machine awarded (Nathaniel Briggs), 1797
Karol Szymanowski, Polish composer, died, 1937
Madrid surrendered to Francisco Franco (ending Spanish Civil War), 1939
Louis Braille, teacher of the blind, died, 1852