649 – Pope Martinus I elected to succeed Theodore I
1543 – England and Scotland sign peace treaty of Greenwich
1847 – 1st US postage stamps go on sale, 5 cent Franklin and 10 cent Washington, NYC
1862 – Battle at Booneville Mississippi: Confederate superior power driven out
1863 – Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; Lee’s northward advance halted
1943 – “Pay-as-you-go” – 1st withholding tax from paychecks
1992 – Fox broadcasting adds Wednesday night TV programming
1993 – Russian manned space craft TM-17, launches into orbit
1993 – 1 second is added to the clock
1994 – Russian spacecraft Soyuz TM-19 launches from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan