Gerhardus Mercator 1512 - Flemish mapmaker, William Oughtred 1575 - Mathematician, credited with inventing the slide rule, Antoine Cadillac 1658 - Founder of Detroit, MI
Emmett J. Culligan 1893 - Water treatment pioneer, Penn Jillett 1955 - Magician (Penn and Teller), Andy Gibb 1958 - Singer
1624 - In the American colony of Virginia, the upper class was exempted from whipping by legislation.
1770 - "The Boston Massacre" took place when British troops fired on a crowd in Boston killing five people. Two British troops were later convicted of manslaughter.
1836 - Samuel Colt's Patent Arms Manufacturing of Paterson, New Jersey, was chartered by the New Jersey legislature.
1845 - The U.S. Congress appropriated $30,000 to ship camels to the western U.S.
1872 - George Westinghouse patented the air brake.
1918 - The Soviets moved the capital of Russia from Petrograd to Moscow.
1922 - "Annie Oakley" (Phoebe Ann Moses) broke all existing records for women's trap shooting. She hit 98 out of 100 targets.
1933 - The Nazi Party won 44 percent of the vote in German parliamentary elections.
1946 - Winston Churchill delivered his "Iron Curtain Speech".
1984 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that cities had the right to display the Nativity scene as part of their Christmas display.
1993 - Cuban President Fidel Castro said that Hillary Clinton was "a beautiful woman."
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