Suisei (Japan) made flyby of Comet Halley, 1986
Anne became English Sovereign, 1702
William Howard Taft, 27th US president, died, 1930
Battle of Pea Ridge (Arkansas), 1862
King William III died following a riding accident, 1702
Ron “Pigpen” McKernan died, 1973
Syrian Revolutionary National Council assumed power, 1963
Japanese captured Rangoon, Burma, 1942
US Senate adopted cloture rule (to limit filibusters), 1917
French troops occupied Dusseldorf, 1921
First train crossed suspension bridge at Niagara Falls, 1855
Henry Ward Beecher, clergyman, died, 1887
Johann Kepler discovered third Law of Planetary Motion, 1618
Georgia ratified the Bill of Rights, 1939
Colonel John Mosby captured Union General E.H. Stoughton, 1863
4000 Marines landed in South Vietnam, 1965
Commodore Matthew Perry made his second landing in Japan, 1854
First dog-licensing law enacted in US, 1894
Sherwood Anderson, US author (“Winesburg Ohio”), died, 1941
“Meltdown” first used (“Time”), 1976
“Roberta,” with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, released, 1935
Telescoping steel fishing rod patented, 1887
“The Fight of the Century” (Joe Frazier beat Muhammad Ali), 1971
Street letter box patented (Albert Potts), 1858
Translation of “The Mirror of the World” completed (William Caxton), 1481
Millard Fillmore, 13th US president, died, 1874