921 Treaty of Bonn: East France & West France recognize each other

1492 Ensisheim Meteorite strikes a wheat field near the village of Ensisheim in Alsace, France. Oldest meteorite with a known date of impact.

1631 Pierre Gassendi observes 1st ever transit of Mercury predicted by Kepler

1637 Anne Hutchinson tried in Massachusetts Bay Colony as a heretic

1800 It becomes illegal for women in Paris to wear trousers without a Police permit (annulled 2013)

1805 Lewis and Clark Expedition first sights the Pacific Ocean at the mouth of the Columbia River

1820 James Monroe re-elected US president

1848 General Zachary Taylor elected as 12th President of US

1872 Cargo ship Mary Celeste sails from Staten Island for Genoa; mysteriously found abandoned four weeks later

1876 Edward Bouchet is 1st African American to receive a Ph.D from a US college (Yale)

1876 Meharry Medical College forms at Central Tennessee College

1907 Delta Sigma Pi, a professional fraternity organized to foster the study of business in universities is founded at New York University.

1910 The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.

1913 Great Lakes Storm "the White Hurricane"" begins with 90 mph winds and 35 foot waves, (lasts till 10 Nov), will sink 19 ships and strand 19 more, killing over 250 people

1916 Amidst the Mexican Revolution and World War I, Woodrow Wilson is re-elected as President of the United States, defeating Republican candidate Charles E. Hughes

1916 Jeannette Rankin (Rep-R-Montana) is elected to Congress as its first woman Representative

1918 Robert Goddard demonstrates tube-launched solid propellant rockets

1918 United Press erroneously reports WWI armistice had been signed

1919 US police raid offices of Union of Russian Workers

1929 Museum of Modern Art opens in Hecksher Building in New York

1934 Arthur L. Mitchell, becomes first African American Democratic US congressman (Illinois)

1942 1st US President to broadcast in a foreign language - FDR, in French

1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt is re-elected President of the United States for a record fourth term, defeating Republican candidate Thomas E. Dewey

1957 Cold War: The Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters.

1966 Lunar Orbiter 2 launched by US

1967 Carl Stokes elected first African American mayor of a major US city - Cleveland, Ohio

1967 LBJ signs a bill establishing Corporation for Public Broadcasting

1967 Surveyor 6 launched for soft landing on Moon

1972 Incumbent President Richard Nixon is re-elected, defeating Democrat candidate George McGovern in a landslide by winning 49 states

1983 Bomb explodes in US Capitol, causing heavy damage but no injuries

1989 NYC elects it's 1st African American mayor (David Dinkins) & 1st female comptroller (Elizabeth Holtzman)

2000 Controversial US presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore is inconclusive; the result, in Bush's favor, is eventually resolved by the Supreme Court

2000 The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovers one of the country's largest LSD labs inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas

2018 World's oldest figurative painting of a beast at least 40,000 years old identified in Lubang Jeriji Saléh cave, Indonesian Borneo

2019 Song lyrics have gotten sadder says researchers who studied 50 years of lyrics at University of Exeter, published in journal "Evolutionary Human Sciences"

2020 Former Vice-President Joe Biden declared the winner of the US Presidential race, four days after the US election, defeating sitting President Donald Trump