1603: New English king James I departs Edinburgh for London.
1614: Pocahontas marries John Rolfe.
1621: Mayflower sails from Plymouth on a return trip to England.
1751: Adolf Frederik of Holstein-Gottorp crowns himself king of Sweden.
1762: British take Grenada, West Indies, from French.
1768: First U.S. Chamber of Commerce forms.
1792: George Washington casts the first presidential veto.
1803: First performance of Beethoven's second Symphony in D.
1806: Isaac Quintard patents apple cider.
1812: Brits storm Badajoz fortress, held by French and Spanish.
1814: Netherlands Bank issues it's 1st banknotes.
1896: First modern Olympic Games officially opens in Athens.
1902: Soccer match riot between Scotland and England kills twenty-five. I know it's bad, but I sort of laughed out loud when I read that >.>;;
1929: Lithuania signs Litvinov-pact.
1939: Membership in Hitler's Youth becomes obligatory.
1944: one hundred-forty Lancasters bomb airplane manufacturer in Toulouse.
1951: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg sentenced to death. I really hope you know who these two are. o.o;
1955: Winston Churchill resigns as British Prime Minister, Anthony Eden succeeds him.
1964: First driverless trains run on London Underground.
1983: France throws out forty-seven Soviet diplomats.
1986: U.S. soldier and Turkish woman killed in West Berlin disco bombing.
