2002 - Queen Elizabeth II knights Rudy Giuliani in ceremony in London England
2000 - The last Sunday Peanuts comicstrip, but George Shulz is published
1997 - The Dow breaks the 7,000 mark for the first time
1990 - The US and several European countries create an agreement with the Soviet Union and East Germany to reunite Germany
1965 - Peggy Fleming, 16, won the ladies senior figure skating title at Lake Placid, NY
1960 - France detonates its first atomic bomb
1955 - Four of the seven Dead Sea Scrolls are acquire by Israel
1949 - Jack Webb's radio show Pat Novak for Hire airs debutes on ABC
1945 - The fire-bombing of Dresden Germany begins while Russia retakes Budapest Hungry from the Germans
1937 - Prince Valiant, by Hal Foster, comic strip debutes
1935 - Bruno Hauptmann is found guilty of the kidnapping and death of the infant son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh
1920 - The National Negro Baseball League organized at Kansas City, Missouri YMCA
1920 - Switzerland is officially recognized as neutral by the League of Nations, leading to the creation of it's headquarters in Geneva
1914 - The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) was founded to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members
1900 - The Anglo-German Accord ratified by Reichstag, in which Britain renounced rights in Samoa
1895 - Louis and August Lumiere patent the Cinematographe
1889 - The first U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Norman Coleman, is appointed
1880 - Thomas Edison observed the Edison Effect for the first time.
1862 - Colonel Bernard J.D. Irwin awarded the first Medal of Honor
1741 - The first magazine in the US, The American Magazine, was published in Philadelphia, PA
1635 - The first public school building in the US is established, The Boston Public Latin School
1633 - Galilea Galilei arrives in Rome Italy for the Inquisition
1542 - The fifth wife of England's King Henry VIII, Catherine Howard executed for adultery