1863 - Patent granted for a process of making color photographs
1876 - Columbia, Harvard and Princeton form Intercollegiate Football Association
1899 - First jukebox (Palais Royal Hotel, San Francisco)
1903 - Enrico Caruso's U.S. debut (Metropolitan Opera House, NY) in "Rigoletto"
1905 - Henry Watson Furness, an Indiana physician, named minister of Haiti
1936 - First issue of Life, a picture magazine created by Henry R. Luce
1943 ― U.S. forces seized control of Tarawa and Makin from Japanese
1963 - JFK's body, lay in repose in East Room of White House
1971 - People's Republic of China seated in U.N. Security Council
1980 - 4,800 die in series of earthquakes that devastated southern Italy
1985 - 58 die as Egyptian commandos storm hijacked Egyptair jet in Malta
1985 - Retired CIA analyst Larry Wu-tai Chin, arrested over spying for China
1988 - South African President Botha reprieves Sharpeville Six
1989 - Pilots Union gives up sympathy strike against Eastern Airlines