193: Lucius Septimus Serverus is crowned emperor of Rome.
979: Challenge to the throne of King Aetherlred II of England.
1611: Word telescope is first used.
1629: England and France sign Peace of Susa.
1671: Cossacks capture Russian Boer leader Stenka Razin.
177: New York adopts new constitution as an independent state.
1792: France declares war on Austria, starting the French Revolutionary Wars.
1818: U.S. Medical Corp forms.
1828: First edition of Noah Webster's dictionary is published.
1836: Congress forms Territory of Wisconsin.
1853: Harriet Tubman began the Underground railroad.
1860: The first Pony Express rider arrives in San Francisco from St. Joseph, Missouri.
1861: Robert E. Lee resigns from the Union Army.
1865: President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in Ford's Theater by John Wilkes Booth.
1931: Spain becomes a republic with the overthrow of King Alfonso XIII.
1940: Allied troops land in Norway.
1989: 1,100,000,000th Chinese born.
