1847 Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government.

1939 Hermann Goering appoints Reinhard Heydrich head of Jewish Emigration.

1945 US jeep-aircraft carrier Ommaney Bay sinks after Japanese kamikaze attack.

1951 Korean War: Chinese forces recapture Seoul.

1989 US F-14s shoot down 2 Libyan jet fighters over Mediterranean.

1781 British naval expedition led by Benedict Arnold burns Richmond, Virginia.

1895 French Captain Alfred Dreyfus, convicted of treason, publicly stripped of his rank; later exonerated.

1919 German Workers' Party forms, precursor to the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazi)

1930 Bonnie Parker meets Clyde Barrow for the first time at Clarence Clay's house.

1996 Hamas operative Yahya Ayyash is killed by an Israeli-planted booby-trapped cell phone.

1940 Mass execution of Poles, committed by Germans in the city of Poznań, Warthegau.

1941 US President Franklin Roosevelt makes his "Four Freedoms" speech (freedom of speech and worship; freedom from want and fear) during his US State of Union address.

1950 Britain recognizes Communist government of China.

2000 The flu outbreak in Britain puts pressure on NHS

1915 World War I: Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm approves strategic bombing of Britain, but forbids bombing London, fearing his relatives in the royal family might be killed.

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.

1944 US Air Force announces production of 1st US jet fighter, the Bell P-59

1945 Lord Haw-Haw (William Joyce) reports total German victory in the Ardennes.

1953 US President Harry Truman announces American development of the hydrogen bomb.

1999 President Bill Clinton's impeachment trial begins in the US Senate after the House voted to impeach him for lying about his affair with Monica Lewinsky.

1835 US national debt is $0 for the first and only time in history.

1940 Britain's first WW II rationing (bacon, butter & sugar)

1948 Queen Wilhelmina signs death sentence against Ans van Dijk for treason.

1966 The Who & the Kinks perform on the last "Shindig" TV show on ABC

2004 RMS Queen Mary 2, the largest passenger ship ever built, is christened by her namesake's granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II

1799 British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger introduces income tax to raise funds for the war against Napoleon.

1806 Admiral Viscount Horatio Nelson receives a state funeral and is interred in St Paul's Cathedral, London.

1855 Clipper "Guiding Star" disappears in Atlantic, 480 dead.

1941 Maiden flight by Canada's British-built Avro Lancaster military plane.

1969 First trial flight of Concorde supersonic jetliner, Bristol, England.

1983 British PM Margaret Thatcher visits Falkland Islands.

2007 Apple Inc CEO Steve Jobs announces the iPhone.

1916 In retaliation for President Woodrow Wilson's recognition of the Carranza government, members of Pancho Villa's revolutionary army take 17 US mining engineers from a train and shoot 16 of them in cold blood.

1917 The Allied Governments respond to US President Woodrow Wilson's December 1916 note, giving their terms for ending the war.

1925 Allies refuse to evacuate the Cologne area of Germany as agreed.

1946 UN General Assembly meets for first time in London.

2010 : Miep Gies, the Dutch office secretary who defied the Nazi occupiers to hide Anne Frank and her family for two years and saved the teenager's diary, died at age 100. :Kaleun_Salute:

1920 French passenger ship Afrique sinks near La Rochelle; 553 die.

1964 First government report by US Surgeon General Luther Terry warning that smoking may be hazardous.

1981 British team led by Ranulph Fiennes completes longest & fastest crossing of Antarctica, reaching Scott base after 75 days (2,500 miles)

1989 140 nations agree to ban chemical weapons (poison gas, etc)

1995 DC-9 crashes near Maria La Baya, Colombia: 51 die, 9 yr old girl lives.

1816 France decrees Bonaparte family excluded from the country forever.

1913 After using other pseudonyms over the years, Josef Dzhugashvili signs himself as Stalin ("man of steel") in a letter to the newspaper Social Democrat.

1916 Max Immelmann and Oswald Boelcke receive the Pour le Merite, the German Empire's highest military award, for achieving eight aerial victories each over Allied aircraft.

1945 German forces in Belgium retreat in Battle of Bulge.

1945 US Task Force 38 destroys 41 Japanese ships in Battle of South China Sea.

1962 Operation Ranch Hand begins, a US Air Force operation to spray South Vietnamese forests with defoliants such as Agent Orange.

1962 Operation Chopper begins, America's first combat mission in the Vietnam War.

1990 Romania bans Communist party (1st Warsaw Pact member to do so)

1898 Emile Zola publishes his open letter "J'accuse" accusing the French government of framing Alfred Dreyfus for sabotage.

1915 Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, presents plan for assault on Dardanelles.

1923 Taking advantage of the chaotic condition of Germany, Hitler stages a demonstration of 5000 storm troopers and denounces the 'November crime'

1942 German U-boats begin harassing shipping on US east coast.

1942 First use of aircraft ejection seat by a German test pilot in a Heinkel He 280 jet fighter.

1943 Adolf Hitler declares "Total War" against the Allies.

2000 Microsoft chairman Bill Gates steps aside as chief executive and promotes company president Steve Ballmer to the position.

1784 US Congress of the Confederation ratifies the Treaty of Paris, signed September 3, 1783, ending the Revolutionary War, and forwards it to Great Britain.

1943 Heinrich Himmler views Warsaw.

1943 Japan begins Operation Ke, withdrawal of its troops from Guadalcanal.

1943 Franklin D. Roosevelt travels from Miami to Morocco to meet with Winston Churchill, becoming the first American president to travel overseas by airplane.

1943 Casablanca Conference begins between Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and other Allied representatives.

1960 US Army promotes Elvis Presley to Sergeant.

1969 25 members of US aircraft carrier Enterprise die during maneuvers.

1973 "Aloha from Hawaii", an Elvis Presley concert, becomes the most watched broadcast by an individual entertainer.

1989 1,000 muslims burn Salman Rushdies' "Satanic Verses" in Bradford, England.

He still looked pretty good!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8mCbLYtUi0

1815 War of 1812: the USS President, an American frigate, is captured by four British frigates.

1870 Donkey first used as symbol of Democratic Party, in Harper's Weekly.

1902 Abdulaziz Ibn Saud leads 40 men over the walls of Riyadh and takes the city, marking the beginning of the Third Saudi State.

1945 The Manhattan Project's G-5 Group, headed by Physicist's Donald Kerst and Seth Neddermeyer, take their first betatron pictures of a nuclear implosion at the Los Alamos Laboratory.

2001 Wikipedia a free Wiki or content encyclopedia is launched by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger.

A. Sticky Wiki!