- 1469: Isabella of Castile married Ferdinand II of Aragon, uniting
                  almost all the Christian dominions of Spain under one monarchy.
                - 1648: The first American labor organization was formed when the
                  Massachusetts general court granted a charter to Boston's
                  shoemakers.
                - 1685: King Louis XIV of France revoked the Edict of Nantes,
                  depriving the Protestant Huguenots of all religious and civil
                  liberties granted them by Henry IV in 1598.
                - 1767: The "Mason-Dixon" line became the commonly known boundary
                  between the North and South and officially became the border
                  between Maryland and Pennsylvania.
                - 1867: The U.S. flag flew for the first time at Sitka following the
                  purchase of Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million.
                - 1870: Benjamin Tilghman patented sandblasting.
                - 1873: The first football rules were formulated at a meeting in New
                  York attended by delegates from Columbia, Princeton, Rutgers and
                  Yale.
                - 1892: The first long-distance phone line between Chicago and New
                  York was opened.
                - 1912: The first Balkan War began.
                - 1955: Scientists at the University of California at Berkeley
                  discovered a new atomic subparticle called a negative proton
                  (antiproton).
                - 1962: U.S. Dr. James Watson and Britons Dr. Francis Crick and Dr.
                  Maurice Wilkins won the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology for
                  their work in DNA.
                - 1970: In Canada, the body of Pierre Laporte, the Quebec Minister of
                  Labor, was found following his kidnap by the Quebec Liberation
                  Front.
                - 1972: Congress passed the Water Pollution Control Act over
                  President Nixon's veto.

                *Happy Birthday*
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                - Chuck Berry, 72, singer/guitarist
                - Peter Boyle, 65, actor, "Young Frankenstein," "Everybody Loves
                  Raymond"
                - Pam Dawber, 47, actress, "Mork & Mindy"
                - Mike Ditka, 59, NFL coach/tight end
                - Forrest Gregg, 65, former NFL coach/tackle
                - Jesse Helms, 77, Republican senator from North Carolina
                - Wynton Marsalis, 37, jazz musician
                - Erin Moran, 37, actress, "Happy Days," "Joanie Loves Chachi"
                - Martina Navratilova, 42, tennis player, No. 1 player in the world
                  seven times
                - George C. Scott, 71, actor, "Patton"
                - Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 79, Canadian ex-prime minister
                - Jean-Claude Van Damme, 38, actor/martial artist "Timecop"
                - Wendy Wasserstein, 48, writer, "The Heidi Chronicles"