1876 – Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for the telephone in the US
1887 – North Carolina State University is founded by the North Carolina General Assembly.
1896 – Gilbert and Sullivan’s last operette “Grand Duke” premieres in London
1918 – H Carroll and J McCarthy’s musical “Oh, Look!” premieres in NYC
1935 – Saar incorporated into Germany
1948 – The Dodecanese islands officially become part of Greece again, ending Italian rule.
1970 – Ice Dance Championship at Ljubljana won by Pakhomova and Gorshkov (URS)
1989 – Partial eclipse of the Sun (Hawaii, NW North America, Greenland)
1995 – NY becomes 38th state to have the death penalty
2016 – Peyton Manning announces his retirement from the Denver Broncos and the NFL