It is the 158th day of the year, with only 207 days remaining.
1494 - Spain and Portugal signs the Treaty of Tordesillas which divides the New World between the two countries.
1692 - In Port Royal, Jamiaca, is hit by a catastrophic earthquake in just three minutes, 1,600 people are killing and 3,000 are seriously injured.
1832 - Asian cholera reaches Quebec, brought by Irish immigrants, and kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada.
1892 - Benjamin Harrison becomes the first President of the United States to attend a baseball game.
1892 - Homer Plessy is arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the "whites-only" car of a train, he would lost the resulting court case, Plessy VS. Ferguson.
1893 - Mohandas Gandhi's first act of civil disobedience.
1917 - Allied ammonal mines underneath German trenches at Messines Ridge are detonated, killing 10,000 German troops at the Battle of Messines.
1938 - The Douglas DC-4E aircraft, makes its first test flight.
1944 - At Abbey Ardennes members of the SS Division Hitlerjugend massacre 23 Canadian prisoners of war.
1965 - The Supreme Court hands down its decision in Griswold VS. Connecticut, effectively legalizing the use of contraception by married couples.
1975 - Sony introduces the Betamax videocasette recorder for sale to the public.
1982 - Priscilla Presely opens Graceland to the public, the bathroom where Elvis died five years earlier is off-limits.
2006 - Abu Masab al-Zarqawi, the leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, is killed in an airstrike by the United States Air Force.
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