| 1570 |
A tidal wave in the North Sea destroys the sea walls from Holland to Jutland. More than 1,000 people are killed. |
| 1772 |
The first Committees of Correspondence are formed in Massachusetts under Samuel Adams.  |
| 1783 |
Gen. George Washington issued his farewell address to the Army near Princeton, N.J. |
| 1789 |
The property of the church in France is taken away by the state. |
| 1795 |
James K. Polk, the 11th president of the United States, was born in Mecklenburg County, N.C. |
| 1841 |
The second Afghan War begins. |
| 1865 |
Warren G. Harding, the 29th president of the United States, was born near Corsica, Ohio.  |
| 1869 |
Sheriff Wild Bill Hickok loses his re-election bid in Ellis County, Kan. |
| 1880 |
James A. Garfield is elected the 20th president of the United States. |
| 1882 |
Newly elected John Poe replaces Pat Garrett as sheriff of Lincoln County, New Mexico Territory. |
| 1889 |
North Dakota and South Dakota became the 39th and 40th states. |
| 1892 |
Lawmen surround outlaws Ned Christie and Arch Wolf near Tahlequah, Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma). It will take dynamite and a cannon to dislodge the two from their cabin. |
| 1903 |
London’s Daily Mirror newspaper is first published.
 Guess I know who they will be voting for this week… |
| 1914 |
Russia declares war with Turkey. |
| 1917 |
British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour expressed support for a national home for the Jews of Palestine in what became known as the Balfour Declaration. |
| 1920 |
The first radio broadcast in the United States is made from Pittsburgh. |
| 1921 |
Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett form the American Birth Control League. |
| 1923 |
U.S. Navy aviator H.J. Brown sets new world speed record of 259 mph in a Curtiss racer. |
| 1926 |
Air Commerce Act is passed, providing federal aid for airlines and airports. |
| 1936 |
The first high-definition public television transmissions begin from Alexandra Palace in north London by the BBC. |
| 1942 |
Lieutenant General Dwight D. Eisenhower arrives in Gibraltar to set up an American command post for the invasion of North Africa. |
| 1943 |
The Battle of Empress Augusta Bay in Bougainville ends in U.S. Navy victory over Japan. |
| 1947 |
Howard Hughes piloted his huge wooden airplane, the Spruce Goose, on its only flight, which lasted about a minute over Long Beach Harbor in California.
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| 1948 |
Harry S Truman is elected the 33rd president of the United States. |
| 1959 |
Charles Van Doren admitted to a House subcommittee that he had the questions and answers in advance of his appearances on the TV game show “Twenty-One.” |
| 1960 |
A British jury determines that Lady Chatterly’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence is not obscene. |
| 1963 |
South Vietnamese President Ngo Dihn Diem was assassinated in a military coup. |
| 1976 |
Former Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter defeated Republican incumbent Gerald R. Ford, becoming the first U.S. president from the Deep South since the Civil War. |
| 1983 |
President Ronald Reagan signs a bill establishing Martin Luther King, Jr., Day.  |
| 2004 |
President George W. Bush was elected to a second term. |
| 2006 |
The Rev. Ted Haggard resigned as president of the National Association of Evangelicals after a man said they had had sexual trysts together. |
| 2009 |
Afghanistan’s election commission proclaimed President Hamid Karzai the victor of the country’s tumultuous ballot, canceling a planned runoff. |
| 2010 |
Republicans won control of the House of Representatives, picking up 63 seats in midterm elections, while Democrats retained a majority in the Senate; Republican governors outnumbered Democrats after gaining six states. |
| 2010 |
Californians rejected a ballot measure that would have made their state the first to legalize marijuana for recreational use. |
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