1241 – 1st attack on Jewish community of Frankfort-on-the-Main Germany
1660 – English King Charles II lands in Dover
1925 – John T. Scopes was indicted in Tennessee for teaching Darwin’s theory of evolution.
1784 – Jews are expelled from Warsaw by Marshall Mniszek
1787 – The Constitutional Convention convened in Philadelphia under the leadership of George Washington, in order to establish a new U.S. government.
1844 – The first telegraphed news dispatch, sent from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore, appeared in the Baltimore Patriot.