Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck debuted on Chinese TV, 1986
Felix the Cat debuted, 1917
William Hogarth, English painter and engraver, died, 1764
Soyuz 3 (USSR) launched, 1968
Terence McSwiney, Lord Mayor of Cork, Ireland, died, 1920
South Vietnam proclaimed, 1955
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, crowned himself shah of Iran, 1967
Shootout at the O.K. Corral, 1881
First NHL player to reach 2000 goals (Wayne Gretzky), 1990
Chinese republic proclaimed, 1911
First explicit legal recognition of slavery (Georgia), 1749
Development of nylon announced, 1938
USS Hornet sunk by Japanese warships off the Solomon Islands, 1942
Hattie McDaniel, actress, died, 1952
UN’s World Health Organization declares smallpox eradicated, 1978
First mules delivered to US (Boston), 1785
Muhammad Ali officially returned to the ring (beat Jerry Quarry), 1970
Rocky Marciano knocked out Joe Louis, 1951
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American woman suffragist and reformer, died, 1902
William Paley, CBS Inc. founder, died, 1990
Pan American Airways flew its first Boeing 707 from New York to Paris, 1958
Igor Sikorsky, aeronautical engineer, died, 1972
First Russian “soviet” (or council) set by workers in Saint Petersburg, 1906
Erie Canal, first US man-made waterway, opened, 1825
Michael Servetus, Spanish theologian and physician condemned to death for blasphemy, 1553
Park Chung Hee, South Korean President, killed, 1979