1851 Melvil Dewey born, created Dewey Decimal System for libraries
1869 Women's suffrage (right to vote) granted in Wyoming Territory (US 1st)
1922 Pete Henry makes longest known NFL drop-kicked field goal, 45 yards
1948 UN General Assembly adopts Universal Declaration of Human Rights
1958 1st domestic (NY-Miami) passenger jet flight: National 707 flew 111
1620 103 Mayflower pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock (12/21 NS)
1844 1st dental use of nitrous oxide, Hartford, Ct
1941 Germany & Italy declare war on US
1961 Adolf Eichman is found guilty of war crimes, in Israel
1961 JFK provides US military helicopters & crews to South Vietnam
1923 Bob Barker born, Darrington Wash, game show host (Price is Right)
1800 Washington DC established as capital of US
1870 Joseph Rainey (SC) became 1st black sworn into House of Reps
1917 Rev Edward Flanagan founded Boys Town outside Omaha, Neb
1953 Chuck Yeager reaches Mach 2.43 in Bell X-1A rocket plane
1983 A truck bomb explodes at the US Embassy in Kuwait
1862 Battle of Fredericksburg, Va; South beats North
1918 Wilson becomes first to make a foreign visit as president (France)
1944 Japanese kamikaze crashes into US cruiser Nashville, kills 138
1947 Maine Turnpike opens to traffic
1977 Entire U of Evansville basketball team, die in plane crash
1983 9,655 see highest-scoring NBA game: Detroit 186, Denver 184 (3 OT)
1988 3 men end 29-hr all-466-station subway ride in NYC
1911 South Pole 1st reached, by Norwegian Roald Amundsen
1949 Bill Buckner born, Calif, 1st baseman, error cost Red Sox 1986 world series
1959 J.B. Jordan in F-104C sets world altitude record, 31,513 m
1986 Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, took off from Edwards AFB, Calif on 1st non-stop, non-refueled flight around world
1990 Right to Die case permits Nancy Cruzan to have her feeding tube removed, she dies 12 days later
1832 Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel born, built a tower in Paris
1874 1st reigning king to visit US (of Hawaii) received by Pres Grant
1890 Chief Sitting Bull of the Sioux killed by US Army
1941 USS Swordfish becomes 1st US sub to sink a Japanese ship
1966 Walt Disney, animator, dies at 65, put in suspended animation
1970 Soviet Venera 7 is 1st spacecraft to land on another planet (Venus)
1835 Fire consumes over 600 buildings in NYC
1916 Grigori Rasputin a powerful Russian monk is murdered
1960 TWA 266 & United 826 collide over Staten Island, kills 134