625 – Honorius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1553 – Condemned as a heretic, Michael Servetus is burned at the stake just outside Geneva
1780 – Samuel Williams and the first U.S. astronomical expedition to record an eclipse of the sun observes the event at Penobscot Bay
1920 – League of Nations moves headquarters in Geneva
1955 – “Rebel Without a Cause”, directed by Nicholas Ray, starring James Dean and Natalie Wood, is released
1955 – Satomi Myodo, renews Zen nun vows and takes Buddhist name of Daien Myodo
1962 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 – NLF leaves People’s Republic of South-Yemen
1980 – William Safire’s column entitled “The Ayatollah Votes” is published in the New York Times, and was later quoted in a campaign ad for Ronald Reagan in that year’s presidential election
1997 – Intel Corp buys Digital Equipment for $700 million