1813-Jane Austin publishes Pride and Prejudice.
1845 – Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” was published for the first time in the “New York Evening Mirror.”
1861 – In America, Kansas became the 34th state of the Union.
1865-William Quantrill and his Confederate raiders attack Danville, Kentucky.
1995 – The San Francisco 49ers became the first team in National Football League (NFL) history to win five Super Bowl titles. The 49ers defeated the San Diego Chargers 49-26.
1924 – R. Taylor patented the ice cream cone rolling machine.
1929- The Seeing Eye, America’s first school for training dogs to guide the blind, founded in Nashville, Tennessee.
1959 – Disney releases the animated film Sleeping Beauty to theatres
1969 – The “Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour” debuted on CBS-TV.
2011 – A 450 year-old painting by Titian of the Madonna and Child sets a record at Sotheby’s, selling for $16.9 million