Can you believe Pablo Picasso married a lady forty-two years younger than him?
| Year | Event |
| 1519 | Hernán Cortés lands in Mexico |
| 1639 | New College (Cambridge College) was renamed Harvard College for clergyman John Harvard |
| 1677 | Massachusetts gains title to Maine for $6,000 |
| 1759 | 27th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet |
| 1781 | The planet Uranus was discovered by Sir William Herschel (sees what he thinks is a "comet") |
| 1835 | Charles Darwin departs Valparaiso for Andes crossing |
| 1852 | Uncle Sam made his debut as a cartoon character in the New York Lantern |
| 1868 | Impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson begins |
| 1869 | Arkansas legislature passes anti-Ku Klux Klan law |
| 1878 | Oxford University defeats Cambridge University in their 1st golf match |
| 1884 | Standard Time was adopted throughout the United States |
| 1887 | Chester Greenwood of Maine patents earmuffs |
| 1888 | Great Blizzard of 1888 rages |
| 1900 | In France the length of the workday for women and children is limited to 11 hours by law |
| 1901 | Passing: Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd president of the United States, died in Indianaoplis at age 67 |
| 1906 | Passing: Susan Brownell Anthony, American suffragist, dies at 85 |
| 1913 | Kansas legislature approved censorship of motion pictures |
| 1915 | Dodgers manager Wilbert Robinson tries to catch a baseball dropped from an airplane, but the pilot substituted a grapefruit |
| 1918 | Trotsky gains control of the Red Army |
| 1918 | American Red Magen David (Jewish Red Cross) forms |
| 1925 | Tennessee makes it unlawful to teach evolution |
| 1928 | Rudolph Friml's musical "Three Musketeers" premieres in NYC |
| 1933 | Banks began to re-open after a holiday declared by President Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| 1935 | Driving tests introduced in Great Britain |
| 1938 | World News Roundup is broadcast for the first time on CBS Radio in the United States. |
| 1938 | Passing: Defense attorney Clarence S. Darrow died at age 80 |
| 1942 | Julia Flikke, Nurse Corps, becomes 1st woman colonel in US army |
| 1943 | Baseball approves official ball (with cork & balata) |
| 1943 | Failed assassin attempt on Hitler during Smolensk-Rastenburg flight |
| 1954 | Braves' Bobby Thomson breaks his ankle, he is replaced by Hank Aaron |
| 1960 | NFL's Chicago Cardinals moves to St Louis |
| 1960 | White Sox unveil new road uniforms with players' names above number |
| 1961 | Floyd Patterson KOs Ingemar Johansson in 6 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1961 | Old type, black & white notes cease to be legal tender |
| 1961 | Wed: Pablo Picasso (79) marries his model Jacqueline Rocque [Roque?] (37) |
| 1964 | Kitty Genovese, 28, was stabbed to death near her Queens, New York, home. The case came to be a symbol of urban apathy, though initial reports that 38 neighbors ignored Genovese's calls for help have been disputed. |
| 1965 | Jeff Beck replaces Eric Clapton of the Yardbirds |
| 1968 | Beatles release "Lady Madonna" in the UK |
| 1969 | Apollo 9 returned to Earth after a mission to test the lunar module |
| 1970 | Digital Equipment Corp introduces PDP-11 minicomputer |
| 1982 | TV drama "T.J. Hooker" premieres on on US's ABC network starring William Shatner |
| 1986 | 12th People's Choice Awards: Sylvester Stallone & Meryl Streep win |
| 1986 | Microsoft has its Initial public offering. |
| 1987 | John Gotti is acquitted of racketeering |
| 1989 | 27th shuttle, Discovery 8, launched, 1st woman to do the countdown |
| 1991 | Exxon pays $1-billion dollars in fines & cleanup of Valdez oil spill |
| 1992 | Martina Navratilova & Judy Nelson settle their galamony suit |
| 1993 | Blizzard of '93 hits north-east US |
| 1996 | A gunman opened fire on a class of kindergarteners at an elementary school in Dunblane, Scotland, killing 16 children and one teacher before killing himself. |
| 2008 | Gold prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange hit $1,000.00 an ounce for the first time |
| 2012 | Encyclopaedia Britannica announces that it will no longer publish printed versions of its encyclopaedia |
| 607 | 12th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's |
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