1816 – Warsaw University is established.
1861 – Julia Ward Howe committed “Battle Hymn of the Republic” to paper
1863 – US President Abraham Lincoln delivers his Gettysburg address beginning; “Four score and seven years ago…”
1873 – James Reed and two accomplices rob the Watt Grayson family of $30,000 in the Choctaw Nation
1905 – The steamer “Hilda” sinks in the English Channel (100 people drown)
1940 – First major German air raid on Birmingham – about 440 bombers kill 450
1950 – US General Eisenhower becomes supreme commander of NATO-Europe
1960 – Mickey Vernon is hired as 1st manager of new Washington team
1973 – New York stock market takes sharpest drop in 19 years
1996 – The 12.9 km Confederation Bridge, joining Borden-Carleton, Prince Edward Island and Cape Jourimain, New-Brunswick is completed and becomes the longest bridge over ice covered waters in the world