1534 - Jacques Cartier, French explorer, arrived on the coast of Labrador.

1792 - The French Revolutionary wars began when France declared war on Austria.

1871 - President Ulysses S. Grant was authorized to declare martial law and use military force to against the Ku Klux Klan.

1902 - Pierre and Marie Curie isolated the radioactive chemical element radium.

1916 - Chicago opened Wrigley Field.

1940 - RCA demonstrated its electron microscope.

1945 - Allied forces took control of the German cities of Nuremberg and Stuttgart in World War II.


1889 - The birth of Adolf Hitler, a prominent WW2 personality.

1918 - The birth of A. Hudson, whose life was well over half passed when his son, H (that would be I, who didn't know him long enough), was born.

1937 - George Takei, most famed as Star Trek's Sulu, was born.