0193-Roman Emperor Pertinax assassinated
1592-Jan Amos Komensky - Moravian educational reformer
1797-Nathaniel Briggs of NH patents a washing machine
1802-Heinrich Olbers discovers 2nd asteroid - later called Pallas
1807-Heinrich Olbers discovers 4th asteroid (Vesta)
1834-Senate censure Pres Jackson for taking fed deposits from Bank of US
1871-SF Art Assn holds open reception at 430 Pine
1930-Constantinople & Angora change to Istanbul & Ankara
1939-Spanish Civil War ends - Madrid fell to Francisco Franco
1941-Novelist & critic Virginia Woolf dies
1942-British naval forces raid Nazi occupied French port of St Nazaire
1943-Composer Sergei Rachmaninoff dies
1953-Athlete Jim Thorpe dies
1969-Eisenhower the 34th pres dies in Washington at 78
1979-Nuclear accident at 3 Mile Is - Middletown - Pa