987 – Hugh Capet is elected king of France.

                   1495 – Friar John Cor records the first known batch of scotch whisky.

                   1533 – Anne Boleyn crowned Queen of England.

                   1660 – Mary Dyer hanged for defying a law banning Quakers from the Massachusetts Bay

                             Colony.

                   1779 – American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold court-martialed for malfeasance.

                   1792 – Kentucky admitted as the 15th state of the United States.

                   1796 – Tennessee admitted as the 16th state of the United States.

                   1831 – James Clark Ross discovers the North Magnetic Pole.

                   1868 – Treaty of Bosque Redondo signed allowing the Navajos to return to their lands

                             in Arizona and New Mexico.

                   1869 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for his electric voting machine.

                   1920 – Adolfo de la Huerta becomes president of Mexico.

                   1925 – Lou Gehrig plays the first game in his streak of 2,130 consecutive games; it was the 

                               longest such streak until broken by Cal Ripken Jr. in 1995.

                   1967 – The Groundbreaking Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album by The Beatles is        

                               released

                   1974 – Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims published in the journal Emergency

                             Medicine.

                   1980 – Cable News Network (CNN) begins broadcasting.

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