2005- Apple announces that it will switch to Intel processors in 2006
1991- NBC announces that Johnny Carson will be replaced by Jay Leno in 1992
1971- Last broadcast of the “Ed Sullivan Show”
1960- Roy Orbison releases hit song, “Only the Lonely”
1944- Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. receives Congressional Medal of Honor
1944- D-Day- invasion of Normandy
1933- First U.S. drive-in theater opens in New Jersey
1918- U.S. wins first victory in WWI at Battle of Belleau Wood
1872- Susan B. Anthony was fined for attempting to vote
1862- Battle of Memphis (home of Shelby Systems)- city is surrendered
1850- Levi Strauss created his first pair of blue jeans
1844- The YMCA was formed in London
1816- Ten inches of snow falls on New England due to a volcanic eruption in Indonesia and was subsequently dubbed the “year without a summer”
1813- U.S. invasion of Canada is halted at Stoney Creek
1772- Jean Bapriste-Pointe Dusable settles Chicago
1664- New Amsterdam is renamed New York City
1660- Sweden and Denmark sign a peace treaty
1654- Sweden’s Queen Christina resigns and converts to Catholicism
1391- Inhabitants of Seville Spain massacre 5,000 Jews
1002- King Henry II (the Saint) of Germany is crowned