1806-1st US college magazine, Yale Literary Cabinet, publishes 1st issue
1869-Free postal delivery formally inaugurated
1884-Colonization of Africa organized at international conference in Berlin
1889-Dom Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil, deposed; republic proclaimed
1919-US Senate 1st invokes cloture to end a filibuster (Versailles Treaty)
1932-Walt Disney Art School created
1939-Nazis begin mass murder of Warsaw Jews
1954-1st regularly scheduled commercial flights over North Pole begins
1957-US sentences Soviet spy Rudolf Ivanovich Abel to 30 years & $3,000
1982-Funeral services held in Moscow's Red Square for Leonid I Brezhnev
1990-Producers confirm that Milli Vanilli didn't sing on their album