TODAY in HISTORY

1790 — Austrian army occupies Brussels 1802 — English sell Suriname to Dutch 1804 — Napoleon Bonaparte crowned first emperor of France in Paris by Pope Pius VII

1816 — First savings bank in US opens (Philadelphia Savings Fund Society)

1823 — President James Monroe declares his “Monroe Doctrine”

1887 — Charles Dickens’ 1st public reading in U.S. (New York NY)

1908 — Pu Yi (Hsuan-T’ung) became China’s Last Emperor at age 3

1939 — New York’s La Guardia Airport began operations as an airliner from Chicago

lands, 1 minute after midnight

1957 — First U.S. full-scale atomic electric power plant-power generated, Shippingport PA

1961— Fidel Castro declares he’s a Marxist, & will lead Cuba to Communism

1968 — President Nixon names Henry Kissinger security advisor

1971 — Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujeira, Sharjah & Umm ak Qiwain form the United Arab Emirates

1990 — First parliamentary election in newly reunified Germany

1993 — Dow-Jones hits record 3702.11