- 1805: Explorers Lewis & Clark first saw the Pacific Ocean.
                - 1811: A thousand Americans led by Gen. William Henry Harrison
                  defeated the Shawnee Indians at the Battle of Tippencanoe Creek near
                  what is now Lafayette, Ind.
                - 1820: James Monroe was elected president.
                - 1837: Abolitionist Elijah Lovejoy was attacked and killed by a
                  pro-slavery mob at his printing works in Alton, Ill.
                - 1872: The U.S. cargo ship Mary Celeste set sail from New York on a
                  journey which ended when it was found mysteriously abandoned the
                  following month.
                - 1876: Edward Bouchet became the first black to recieve a Ph.D from
                  an American college - Yale.
                - 1885: Canada's first trans-continental railway, the Canadian
                  Pacific, was completed in British Columbia.
                - 1916: Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to
                  Congress.
                - 1917: Russian Bolsheviks under Lenin overthrew the provisional
                  government of Alexander Kerensky in Petrograd.
                - 1929: The Museum of Modern Art opened in New York City.
                - 1931: Mao Tse-Tung declared the Chinese People's Republic.
                - 1944: President Franklin Roosevelt was re-elected for a record
                  fourth term.
                - 1972: President Richard Nixon was re-elected in a landslide.
                - 1973: The U.S. and Egypt announced restoration of full diplomatic
                  links for the first time since the 1967 Six-Day War.
                - 1980: Actor Steve McQueen died of cancer at age 50 while being
                  treated in Juarez, Mexico.

                *Happy Birthday*
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                - Billy Graham, 87, evangelist
                - Al Hirt, 76, bandleader, played "The Green Hornet" theme
                - Christopher Knight, 41, actor, "The Brady Bunch"
                - Jeremy London, 26, actor, "Party Of Five"
                - Wolf Mankowitz, 74, novelist, screen/scriptwriter
                - Joni Mitchell, 55, folk performer/singer/guitarist
                - Dame Joan Sutherland, 72, opera soprano
                - Mary Travers, 61, folk singer, of Peter Paul & Mary trio