1629 – Sweden and Poland signs Peace of Altmark
1887 – Emile Berliner patents the Gramophone
1890 – US stops minting $1 and $3 gold coin and 3 cent piece
1892 – 1st public appearance of John Philip Sousa’s band (NJ)
1918 – Beginning of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, more than 1 million American soldiers in the largest and most costly offensive of WWI
1945 – All old Dutch banknotes declared invalid
1954 – KODE TV channel 12 in Joplin, MO (ABC) begins broadcasting
1977 – Sir Freddie Laker begins cut-rate “Skytrain” service, London to NY
1992 – 1st time a positional player pitches for NY Mets, Phil Pecota, in 19-2 lose to Pirates
2019 – WHO announces 800,000 children in DR Congo will be vaccinated in nine days in worlds’s largest measles epidemic that has taken over 3,500 lives