The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved smaller condoms for
American men after recent studies show the minimum 6.69-inch length
requirement is actually an inch longer than the average U.S. man’s
penis. 
| 312 | Constantine the Great defeats Marcus Aurelius Valerius Maxentius at the Mulvian Bridge. | |
| 969 | After a prolonged siege, the Byzantines end 300 years of Arab rule in Antioch. | |
| 1216 | Henry III of England is crowned. | |
| 1628 | After a fifteen-month siege, the Huguenot town of La Rochelle surrenders to royal forces. | |
| 1636 | Harvard College, the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States, is founded in Cambridge, Mass. | |
| 1768 | Germans and Acadians join French Creoles in their armed revolt against the Spanish governor of New Orleans. | |
| 1793 | Eli Whitney applies for a patent on the cotton gin, a machine which cleans the tight-clinging seeds from short-staple cotton easily and effectively–a job which was previously done by hand. | |
| 1863 | In a rare night attack, Confederates under Gen. James Longstreet attack a Federal force near Chattanooga, Tennessee, hoping to cut their supply line, the “cracker line.” They fail. | |
| 1886 | The Statue of Liberty, originally named Liberty Enlightening the World, is dedicated at Liberty Island, N. Y., formerly Bedloe’s Island, by President Grover Cleveland | |
| 1901 | Race riots sparked by Booker T. Washington’s visit to the White House kill 34. | |
| 1904 | The St. Louis police try a new investigation method: fingerprints. | |
| 1914 | The German cruiser Emden, disguised as a British ship, steams into Penang Harbor near Malaya and sinks the Russian light cruiser Zhemchug. | |
| 1914 | George Eastman announces the invention of the color photographic process. | |
| 1919 | Over President Woodrow Wilson‘s veto, Congress passes the National Prohibition Act, or Volstead Act, named after its promoter, Congressman Andrew J. Volstead. It provides enforcement guidelines for the Prohibition Amendment. | |
| 1927 | Pan American Airways launches the first scheduled international flight. | |
| 1940 | Italy invades Greece, launching six divisions on four fronts from occupied Albania. | |
| 1944 | The first B-29 Superfortress bomber mission flies from the airfields in the Mariana Islands in a strike against the Japanese base at Truk. | |
| 1960 | In a note to the OAS (Organization of American States), the United States charges that Cuba has been receiving “substantial quantities of arms and numbers of military technicians” from the Soviet bloc. | |
| 1962 | Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev orders Soviet missiles removed from Cuba, ending the Cuban Missile Crisis. | |
| 1965 | Construction is completed on the St. Louis Arch; at 630 feet (192m), it is the world’s tallest arch. | |
| 1971 | Britain launches the satellite Prospero into orbit, using a Black Arrow carrier rocket; this is the first and so far (2013) only British satellite launched by a British rocket. | |
| 1982 | The Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party wins the election, giving Spain its first Socialist government since the death of right-wing President Francisco Franco. | |
| 2005 | Libby “Scooter” Lewis, chief of staff to Vice Pretender Cheney, resigns after being indicted for “outing” CIA agent Valerie Plame. | |
| 2007 | Argentina elects its first woman president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. |
Scientists studying a mysterious skull discovered in Papua New Guinea
88 years ago have said they believe it belonged to an early victim of a
violent tsunami in the southwest Pacific 6,000 years ago.
An Atlanta real estate lawyer who defended the Ku Klux Klan in the ’70s and ’80s is once again in the news for his claim that “desegregation was a mistake.”
