1547 — Protestant German monarch surrenders to Karel in Wittenberg
1568 — Mary Queen of Scotland flees to England
1605 — Camillo Borghese elected to succeed Pope Leo XI becomes Paul V
1763 — Samuel Johnson meets his future biographer James Boswell in London
1792 — Denmark abolishes slave trade
1803 — Peace of Amiens ends
1817 — Mississippi River steamboat service begins
1861 — Kentucky proclaims its neutrality
1872 — Metropolitan Gas Company lamps lit for first time
1879 — Antonin Dvorak's "Slavic Dancing" premieres
1911 — Remains of a neanderthal man found in Jersey, U.K.
1911 — Zeppelin "Deutscheland" wrecked at Dusseldorf
1914 — American Horseshoe Pitchers Association organizes in Kansas City
1914 — Ewing Field, near Masonic Street, opens