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1759 - In the battle of Quiberon Bay during the Seven Years War, the British fleet with 23 warships under Admiral Hawke destroyed the French invasion fleet of 21 warships under Admiral Conflans.

1780 - After the Dutch had supplied French and Spanish arms to American rebels, the British declared war on Holland.

1789 - The United States Constitution's Bill of Rights was ratified.

1818 - Simon Bolivar declared Venezuela independent of Spain.

1866 - Pierre Lallemont of Paris, France patented the rotary-crank bicycle known as the bone shaker.

1873 - In Hungary, the rival cities of Buda and Pesth were joined together to form the capital of the country.

1873 - In France, the National Assembly passed the law of Septennate which gave presidential powers to Maurice Comte de Mac-Mahon for seven years. He became second president of the Third French Republic in succession to Adolphe Thiers.

1888 - William Bundy invents the first timecard clock.

1914 - Photographs became a requirement on passports from the United States State Department.

1917 - 324 tanks under the command of General Elles struck at the German lines in the battle of Cambrai, France -- the first major battle to involve tanks. By the end of the battle no gains had been made and the British lost 43,000 casualties.

1919 - In Tucson, Arizona, the first municipally-owned airport in the United States opened.

1922 - The Lausanne Conference began in Switzerland to resolve differences between the Allied powers and Turkey following World War One.

1929 - On the NBC Blue Radio network, "The Rise of the Goldbergs" was first broadcast with Gertrude Berg as Molly. Later, the title was shortened to "The Goldbergs". For her work as writer of the first scripts for the 15-minute program and as the show's star, Berg was paid $75 a week. The program continued until 1945, but returned for one season in 1949-1950. In 1949, "The Goldbergs" came to television with motherly phrases like, "Button up your neck. It’s cold outside."

1929 - Three weeks after the stock market crash that plunged the United States into the Great Depression Leo Reisman and his orchestra recorded "Happy Days are Here Again" for Victor Records.

1931 - The American Telephone and Telegraph Company introduced the first commercial teletype service.

1941 - General Rommel with his Afrika Korps checked an advance of British armor at the battle of Sidi Rezegh.

1941 - The Western drama They Died With Their Boots On, with Errol Flynn as General George Armstrong Custer, opened in United States theaters. The film, directed by Raoul Walsh, was highly inaccurate in its accounting of the legendary Custer. The film also starred Olivia da Havilland and Arthur Kennedy, and Anthony Quinn was cast as Crazy Horse.

1943 - The United States army landed on Makin and Tarawa Atolls in the Gilbert Islands and captured them from the Japanese after five days.

1945 - The Allied Control Commission approved the transfer of six million Germans from Austria, Hungary and Poland back to West Germany.

1945 - The war crimes trials of 24 German World War II leaders began in Nuremberg.

1947 - Princess Elizabeth (future Queen of England in 4 years) married Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

1947 - Meet the Press, which ran for over 29 years on television, aired for the first time.

1959 - WABC radio in New York firted one of America’s great rock jocks; the ‘Moondoggy’ himself, Alan Freed. The firing was part of the payola music scandal.

1962 - President John F. Kennedy agreed to lift the American blockade of Cuba, ending the Cuban missile crisis.

1966 - "Cabaret", opened on Broadway for the first of 1,166 performances. Joel Gray starred in the hit which was an adaptation of both the play, "I Am a Camera", and the novel, "Goodbye to Berlin".

1969 - In Rio de Janeiro, soccer star Pelé collected his 1,000th career goal.

1971 - Isaac Hayes of Memphis, Tennessee saw his first #1 hit as "Theme from Shaft" started its two-week stay at the top of the charts.

1974 - The first crash of a Boeing 747 jumbo jet occurred when a Lufthansa airliner crashed after takeoff at Nairobi airport in Kenya, killing 59 people.

1975 - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, with a stellar cast headed by Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher, opened across the country. The film and its lead actors later won many awards, including the top four Oscars and the top four British Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Director. The film, about a man who is sent to an asylum to avoid prison time but finds the head nurse more demeaning and oppressive than any prison warden, was a box office sensation.

1979 - Some 300 armed Shi'ite rebels seized the Great Mosque at Mecca and occupied it until December 4 when they were driven out by the army with many casualties.

1980 - In China, Jiang Qing, widow of Mao Zedong, went on trial on charges of treason.

1981 - Anatoly Karpov retained the World Chess Championship, beating Viktor Korchnoi in Italy.

1981 - Ragtime, starring James Cagney, Brad Dourif, Moses Gunn, Elizabeth McGovern, Pat O'Brien, and Donald O'Connor, opened in U.S. theaters.

1984 - 35 years and 11 months after McDonald’s first hamburger sold, Edward Rensi then president of McDonald's made the 50 billionth burger. The milestone was celebrated at the New York City's Grand Hyatt Hotel.

1984 - The largest crowd to see the unveiling of a Hollywood Walk-of-Fame star watched as Michael Jackson's star took its place right in front of Mann’s Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles, California. With this event, ‘The Gloved One’ became star number 1,793 on the walk.

1986 - In its annual list of Products of the Year, "Fortune" magazine congratulated "Risk takers and innovators who reached for the brass rings and grabbed gold." The list included: Uncle Sam’s gold eagle coin, Kodak’s lithium batteries, and the toy Laser Tag with light-emitting pistols.

1992 - 20 paintings by Adolf Hitler went unsold at an auction after they failed to attract a single bid.

1992 - Fire swept through Queen Elizabeth's residence at Windsor Castle, causing extensive damage to its ancient fabric.

1995 - Polish President Lech Walesa suffered bitter defeat in a re-election bid at the hands of ex-Communist Aleksander Kwasniewski.

1995 - The European Union slapped an arms embargo and aid freeze on Nigeria to punish it for the execution of nine human rights activists.