• 1512, the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, is exhibited to the public for the first time
• 1520, the Strait of Magellan, the passage immediately south of mainland South America, connecting the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans, is first navigated by Ferdinand Magellan during his global circumnavigation voyage
• 1683, the British crown colony of New York is subdivided into 12 counties
• 1755, Lisbon earthquake: In Portugal, Lisbon is destroyed by a massive earthquake and tsunami, killing between sixty thousand and ninety thousand people
• 1765, the British Parliament enacts the Stamp Act on the 13 colonies in order to help pay for British military operations in North America
• 1790, Edmund Burke publishes Reflections on the Revolution in France, in which he predicts that the French Revolution will end in a disaster
• 1800, John Adams becomes the first President of the United States to live in the Executive Mansion (later renamed the White House)
• 1805, Napoleon Bonaparte invades Austria during the War of the Third Coalition
• 1814, Congress of Vienna opens to re-draw the European political map after the defeat of France, in the Napoleonic Wars
• 1870 , the Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather Service) makes its first official meteorological forecast
• 1897, the first Library of Congress building opened its doors to the public. The Library had been housed in the Congressional Reading Room in the U.S. Capitol
• 1918, Malbone Street Wreck: the worst rapid transit accident in US history occurs under the intersection of Malbone Street and Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, with at least 93 deaths.
• 1941, photographer Ansel Adams takes a picture of a moonrise over the town of Hernandez, New Mexico that would become one of the most famous images in the history of photography
• 1950, Puerto Rican nationalists Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo attempt to assassinate US President Harry S. Truman at Blair House
• 1960, while campaigning for President of the United States, John F. Kennedy announces his idea of the Peace Corps
• 1963, the Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, with the largest radio telescope ever constructed, officially opens
• 1968, the Motion Picture Association of America's film rating system is officially introduced, originating with the ratings G, M, R, and X
• 1993, the Maastricht Treaty takes effect, formally establishing the European Union
• 2001, President George W. Bush issued an order allowing past presidents, beginning with Ronald Reagan, to have as much say as incumbent presidents in keeping some of their White House papers private
• 2006, a practitioner of that "religion of peace", was convicted in Lawrenceville, Ga., of the mutilation of his 2-year-old daughter in what's believed to be the first such criminal case in the U.S. (Khalid Adem was sentenced to 10 years in prison.)
• 2010, Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong, 61, was convicted by a jury in Erie, Pa., of participating in a bizarre plot in which a pizza delivery driver was forced to rob a bank wearing a metal bomb collar that later exploded, killing him
• 2011, a U.N. report said the world's population has topped the 7 billion mark, doubling the total of 1968. The U.N. Population Fund predicted 8 billion people by 2025
• 2013, a U.S. drone strike killed Hakimullah Mehsud, leader of the Pakistani Taliban, and four other practioners of that "rehligion of peace"
• 2016, most of a black church in Greenville, Mississippi, was destroyed by an arson fire; the building was spray-painted with the words "Vote Trump." In time, and to much justified embarassment, a member, Andrew McClinton, was charged with the crime
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Jonah Goldberg: Cancel the primaries
Rich Lowry: Republicans have a good argument to back Trump
Deroy Murdock: Where are the high crimes and misdemeanors?
David Limbaugh: Exposing the Fraud of Socialism
Class Struggle by Jay Mathews: School was painful. So what did he do? He decided to fix things
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