It is the 351st day of the year, with only 14 days (two weeks) remaining until the end of the year.
546 - The Ostrogoths of King Totila conquer Rome by bribing the Byzantine garrison.
1577 - Francis Drake sails from Plymouth, England on a secret mission to explore the Pacific Coast of the Americas, he is assigned this by Queen Elizabeth I.
1777 - France formally recognizes the United States of America as a country.
1790 - This marks the discovery of the Aztec calendar stone.
1862 - General Ulysses S. Grant issues General Order No.11, expelling Jews from Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky.
1903 - The Wright Brothers make their first powered and heavier-than-air flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
1935 - This is the first flight of the Douglas DC-3 airplane.
1944 - Known as the Malmedy massacre, American 285th Field Artillery Observation POW's are hot by Waffen-SS Kampfgruppe Peiper.
1947 - The first flight of the Boeing b-47 Stratojet strategic bomber.
1957 - The United States successfully launches te first Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
1969 - Project Blue Book occurs, as the United States Air Force closes its study of UFOs, stating that sighting are generated as a result of "A mild form of mass hysteria, individuals who fabricate such reports to perpetrate a hoax or seek publicity, psychopathological persons, and misidentification of various conventional objects."
1989 - The first episode of the television series The Simpsons, airs in the United States. It is called "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire."
2009 - MV Danny F II sinks off the coast of Lebanon, resulting in the deaths of 44 people and over 28,000 animals.
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