1719 – 1st recorded display of Aurora Borealis in north American colonies (New England)
1816 – Citizens of Geneva thwart Savoyard invaders
1882 – Victorien Sardous play “Fedora” with Sarah Bernhardt premieres in Paris
1932 – San Francisco’s coldest day (27°F) – it snows
1945 – Het Parool publishes 1st Captain Rob-strip
1948 – WMC TV channel 5 in Memphis, Tennessee (NBC) begins broadcasting
1984 – Mauretania military coup under Col Maawiya Ould Sid’ahmed Taya
1985 – General Electric acquires RCA Corp and its subsidiary, NBC
2017 – Attempted suicide terrorist bomb attack in New York wounds 3, bomb fails to fully detonate
2019 – Discovery of the earliest figurative artwork in the world, (43,900 years old), figures part human part animal, from cave in Sulawesi, Indonesia, reported in journal “Nature”