996
Sixteen year old Otto III is crowned the Roman Emperor.
1471
King Henry VI is killed in the Tower of London. Edward IV takes the throne.
1506
Christopher Columbus dies.
1536
The Reformation is officially adopted in Geneva, Switzerland.
1620
Present-day Martha's Vineyard is first sighted by Captain Bartholomew Gosnold.
1790
Paris is divided into 48 zones.
1832
The Democratic party holds its first national convention.
1856
Lawrence, Kansas is captured and sacked by pro-slavery forces.
1863
The siege of the Confederate Port Hudson, Louisiana, begins.
1881
The American Red Cross is founded by Clara Barton.
1927
Charles Lindbergh lands in Paris completing the first solo air crossing of the Atlantic.
1940
British forces attack German General Rommel's 7th Panzer Division at Arras, slowing his blitzkrieg of France.
1941
The first U.S. ship, the S.S. Robin Moor, is sunk by a U-boat.
1951
The U.S. Eighth Army counterattacks to drive the Communist Chinese and North Koreans out of South Korea.
1961
Governor Patterson declares martial law in Montgomery, Alabama.
1970
The U.S. National Guard mobilizes to quell disturbances at Ohio State University.
1991
In Madras, India, a suicide bomber kills the former Prime Minister,
Rajiv Gandhi.
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