Tube launched, solid-fuel rocket demonstrated (Goddard), 1918
Battle of Tippecanoe, 1811
Voyager I photographs identify 95 separate Saturn rings, 1980
Will Durant, historian, died, 1981
Magic Johnson, basketball player, announced he had AIDS, 1991
Jean Andre Deluc, geologist, died, 1817
Samuel J. Tilden and Rutherford B. Hayes tied in election, 1876
Bolsheviks overthrew Russian government, 1917
James Joseph (Gene) Tunney, heavyweight boxing champ, died, 1978
“Naughty Marietta” opened on Broadway, 1910
Elijah P. Lovejoy, abolitionist newspaperman, murdered by mob, 1837
Richard M. Nixon re-elected to a second term, 1972
First American won Queensland Lawn championship (Arthur Ashe), 1965
John Nance Garner, 32nd US vice president, died, 1967
Last person publicly burned by the Spanish Inquisition (Seville), 1783
Alexander Dubcek, former Chechoslovak leader, died, 1992
Elephant first used as the Republican symbol (Harper’s Weekly), 1874
Slaves aboard Creole mutiny and take ship to Nassau, 1841
First woman elected to the US Congress (Jeannette Rankin, Montana), 1916
77 Union ships landed at Port Royal, South Carolina, 1861
Nixon said “You won’t have Nixon to kick around any more ...”, 1962
Canadian Pacific Transcontinental Railway completed, 1885
Franklin Delano Roosevelt re-elected for fourth US presidential term, 1944
Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapsed, Tacoma, Washington, 1940
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and author, died, 1962
Lewis and Clark Expedition arrived at the Pacific Coast, 1805