1513 Pope Julius II 
dies. He will lay in
rest in a huge tomb sculptured by Michelangelo 
.
dies. He will lay in
rest in a huge tomb sculptured by Michelangelo .
1725 New Hampshire militiamen partake in
the first recorded scalping of Indians by whites in North America.
1792 The U.S. Postal Service is created.
1809 The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the
power of the federal government is greater than any individual state in the
Union.
1831 Polish revolutionaries defeat the
Russians in the Battle of Grochow.
1864 Confederate troops defeat a Union army
sent to bring Florida into the union at the Battle of Olustee, Fla.
1900 J.F. Pickering patents his airship.
1906 Russian troops seize large portions of
Mongolia.
1915 President Woodrow Wilson 
opens the
Panama-Pacific Expo in San Francisco to celebrate the opening of the Panama
Canal.
opens the
Panama-Pacific Expo in San Francisco to celebrate the opening of the Panama
Canal.
1918 The Soviet Red Army seizes Kiev, the
capital of the Ukraine.
1938 Hitler 
demands self-determination for
Germans in Austria and Czechoslovakia.
demands self-determination for
Germans in Austria and Czechoslovakia.
1941 The United States sends war planes to
the Pacific.
1942 Lt. Edward O'Hare 
downs five out of
nine Japanese bombers that are attacking the carrier Lexington.
downs five out of
nine Japanese bombers that are attacking the carrier Lexington.
1943 German troops of the Afrika Korps
break through the Kasserine Pass, defeating U.S. forces.
1954 The Ford Foundation gives a $25
million grant to the Fund for Advancement of Education.
1959 The FCC applies the equal time rule to
TV newscasts of political candidates.
1962 Mercury astronaut John Glenn 
becomes
the first American to orbit the Earth.
becomes
the first American to orbit the Earth.
1963 Moscow offers to allow on-site
inspection of nuclear testing.
1965 Ranger 8 hits the moon and sends back
7,000 photos to the United States.
1968 North Vietnamese army chief in Hue
orders all looters to be shot on sight.
1971 Young people protest having to cut
their long hair in Athens, Greece.
1982 Carnegie Hall in New York begins $20
million in renovations.
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