Sir Henry Morton Stanley 1841, Jackson Pollock 1912, Alan Alda 1936
1788 - The first British penal settlement was founded at Botany Bay.
1871 - France surrendered in the Franco-Prussian War.
1878 - The first telephone switchboard was installed in New Haven, CT.
1909 - The United States ended direct control over Cuba.
1915 - The Coast Guard was created by an act of the U.S. Congress to fight contraband trade and aid distressed vessels at sea.
1922 - The National Football League (NFL) franchise in Decatur, IL, transferred to Chicago. The team took the name Chicago Bears.
1938 - The first ski tow started operation in Vermont.
1965 - General Motors reported the biggest profit of any U.S. company in history.
1973 - CBS-TV debuted "Barnaby Jones."
1980 - Six Americans who had fled the U.S. embassy in Tehran, Iran, on November 4, 1979, left Iran using false Canadian diplomatic passports. The Americans had been hidden at the Canadian embassy in Tehran.
1986 - The U.S. space shuttle Challenger exploded just after takeoff. All seven of its crew members were killed.
1999 - Ford Motor Company announced the purchase of Sweden's Volvo AB for $6.45 billion.
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