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This Day in History...
1099  Christian soldiers on the First Crusade march aroundJerusalem.
1608  The first French settlement at Quebec was established bySamuel de Champlain.
1630  The Massachusetts Bay Colony celebrated Thanksgiving Day. The day is recognized as the first Thanksgiving.
1663  King Charles II of England granted a charter to Rhode Island.
1693  Uniforms for police in New York City were authorized.
1709  Peter the Great defeated Charles XII at Poltava, in theUkraine, The Swedish empire was effectively ended.
1755  Britain broke off diplomatic relations with France as theirdisputes in the New World intensified.
1776  Col. John Nixon gave the first public reading of the U.S.Declaration of Independence to a crowd at IndependenceSquare in Philadelphia.
1794  French troops captured Brussels, Belgium.
1795  Kent County Free School changed its name to Washington College. It was the first college to be named after U.S. President George Washington. The school was established by an act of the Maryland Assembly in 1723.
1815  Louis XVIII returned to Paris after the defeat of Napoleon.
1865  C.E. Barnes patented the machine gun.
1879  The first ship to use electric lights departed from SanFrancisco, CA.
1881  Edward Berner, druggist in Two Rivers, WI, poured chocolatesyrup on ice cream in a dish. To this time chocolate syruphad only been used for making ice-cream sodas.
1889  The Wall Street Journal was first published.
1889  John L. Sullivan defeated Jake Kilrain, in the lastchampionship bare-knuckle fight. The fight lasted 75 rounds.
1907  Florenz Ziegfeld staged his first "Follies" on the roof ofthe New York Theater in New York City.
1919  U.S. President Wilson returned from the Versailles PeaceConference in France.
1947  Demolition work began in New York City for the new permanentheadquarters of the United Nations.
1950  General Douglas MacArthur was named commander-in-chief ofUnited Nations forces in Korea.
1953  Notre Dame announced that the next five years of its footballgames would be shown in theatres over closed circuit TV.
1960  The Soviet Union charged Gary Powers with espionage. Hewas shot down in a U-2 spy plane.
1963  All Cuban-owned assets in the United States were frozen.
1969  The U.S. Patent Office issued a patent for the game "Twister."
1970  The San Francisco Giant’s Jim Ray Hart became the firstNational League player in 59 seasons to collect six runsbatted (RBI) during a single inning.
1986  Kurt Waldheim was inaugurated as president of Austria despitecontroversy over his alleged ties to Nazi war crimes.
1993  Charles Keating, chief of Lincoln Savings & Loan Association, was sentenced to 12 years and seven months in prison for violating California security and fraud laws.
1997  The Mayo Clinic and the U.S. government warned that thediet-drug combination known as "fen-phen" could causeserious heart and lung damage.
1997  NATO invited Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic to jointhe alliance in 1999.
2000  J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" wasreleased in the U.S. It was the fourth Harry Potter book.


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