1683 – Le Plecta appointed French minister of Finance
1888 – Queen Victoria grants William Mackinnon’s Imperial British East Africa Company political and commercial rights
1899 – Carnation processes its first can of evaporated milk
1900 – British General Buller occupies Lydenburg, South Africa
1903 – Start of Sherlock Holmes “Adventure of Creeping Man” (BG)
1905 – Atlanta Life Insurance Company forms
1955 – “Catch a Star” opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 23 performances
1980 – Macalaster U of St Paul, Minn beating Mount Senario 17-14
1986 – Attack on synagogue in Istanbul, 23 killed
1990 – US citizen is shot in Kuwait; oil markets surge on aggressive US statements toward Iraq