1579 – England signs an offensive and defensive alliance with Netherland
1610 – Galileo Galilei discovers the first three moons of Jupiter: Io, Europa and Ganymede
1698 – Russian Tsar Peter the Great departs Netherlands for England
1830 – 1st US Railroad Station opens (Baltimore)
1896 – Fannie Farmer publishes her first cookbook “The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book”
1899 – Walter Camp publishes his 1st All-American football team in Collier’s
1916 – In response to pressure from President Woodrow Wilson, Germany notifies the US State Department that it will abide by strict international rules of maritime warfare
1945 – The last surface engagement between Allies and Japanese in the Pacific campaign, World War II
1972 – Lewis F. Powell Jr. becomes a US Supreme Court Justice
1973 – Mark Essex’s mass shooting comes to an end after he is shot by police more than 200 times on the roof of New Orlean’s Holiday Inn hotel. He killed nine people, including five policeman.