197 Battle of Lugdunum [Battle of Lyon]: Roman Emperor Lucius Septimius Severus' army beats Roman usurper Clodius Albinus at Lyon

356 Emperor Constantius II shuts all heathen temples

842 Medieval Iconoclastic Controversy ends as a council in Constantinople formally reinstates the veneration of icons in churches

1600 Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina explodes in the most violent eruption in South American recorded history having a global impact on human society

1674 Netherlands & England sign Peace of Westminster (NYC becomes English)

1803 US Congress accepts Ohio's constitution, statehood not ratified till 1953

1807 US Vice President Aaron Burr arrested in Alabama for treason; later acquitted

1831 1st practical US coal-burning locomotive, the DeWitt Clinton, makes 1st trial run in Pennsylvania

1852 The Phi Kappa Psi fraternity is founded at Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania

1856 Tin-type camera patented by Hamilton Smith, Gambier, Ohio

1864 Knights of Pythias form 1st lodge in Washington, D.C. (12 members)

1878 Thomas Edison is granted a patent for his cylinder phonograph

1881 Kansas becomes 1st state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages

1884 "Enigma Outbreak" of over 60 tornadoes in Mississippi, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky and Indiana kill hundreds, if not over a thousand (hence the "enigma") people

1906 Will Keith Kellogg (after falling out with brother over development credit and wanting to add sugar to cereal) joins Charles D. Bolin in founding the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company, now the multinational food manufacturer Kellogg's

1910 Typhoid Mary [Mary Mallon] is freed from her first periods of forced isolation and goes on to cause several further outbreaks of typhoid in the New York area

1913 1st prize inserted into a Cracker Jack box

1914 Four-year old Charlotte May Pierstorff mailed by train from Grangeville, Idaho to her grandparents’ house 73 miles away in most famous 'child in the post' instance

1929 Medical diathermy machine 1st used in Schenectady, NY.  Diathermy reaches the tissue through the use of microwave, shortwave, or ultrasound energy applied to the treatment area.

1934 US contract air mail service canceled, replaced by US army for 6 months

1942 FDR orders detention & internment of all west-coast Japanese-Americans

1945 980 Japanese soldiers reportedly killed by crocodiles in 2 days on Ramree Island, Burma

1945 Brotherhood Day-1st celebrated.  Brotherhood Day was a project of the National Conference of Christians and Jews (NCCJ).  President Franklin D. Roosevelt marked the occasion by calling for an end to prejudice.

1950 Groundbreaking ceremony held for Mississippi Vocational College (later Mississippi Valley State University)

1953 Georgia approves US 1st literature censorship board

1959 USAF rocket-powered rail sled attains Mach 4.1 (4970 kph), NM

1963 "The Feminine Mystique" by Betty Friedan, widely credited as the start of second-wave feminism, is published

1968 1st US teachers' strike (Florida)

1985 Canned & bottled Cherry Coke introduced by Coca-Cola

1985 Mickey Mouse welcomed in China

1985 William Schroeder is 1st artificial heart patient to leave hospital He spends 15 minutes outside Humana Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky

1993 "Happy Nation" debut studio album by Swedish pop group Ace of Base is released

1997 FCC makes available 311 for non-emergency calls & 711 for hearing or speech-impaired emergency calls

2002 NASA's Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars using its thermal emission imaging system.

2007 Blogging website Tumblr is founded by David Karp in New York

2019 New York city bans hair discrimination, to limit racial stereotyping

2019 Vatican confirms secret church guidelines for children of priests