1779 John Adams appointed to negotiate peace terms with British On this day in 1779, the Continental Congress appoints John Adams to travel to France as minister plenipotentiary in charge of negotiating treaties of peace and commerce with Great Britain during the Revolutionary War. Adams had traveled to Paris in 1778 to negotiate an alliance with France, but had… read more »

AMERICAN REVOLUTION

1779

John Jay is appointed minister to Spain »

AUTOMOTIVE

1967

“My Mother, The Car” exported to France »

CIVIL WAR

1864

Confederate guerillas sack Centralia, Missouri »

COLD WAR

1959

Khrushchev ends trip to the United States »

CRIME

1989

Zsa Zsa Gabor storms out of the courtroom »

DISASTER

1854

Ships collide off Newfoundland »

GENERAL INTEREST

1540

Jesuit order established »

1960

Sylvia Pankhurst dies »

HOLLYWOOD

1991

Reeves and Phoenix star in My Own Private Idaho »

LITERARY

1996

F. Scott Fitzgerald stamp is issued »

MUSIC

1999

Placido Domingo breaks Caruso’s opening-night record at the Metropolitan Opera »

OLD WEST

1869

Sheriff Wild Bill Hickok proves too wild for Kansas »

PRESIDENTIAL

1938

Franklin Roosevelt appeals to Hitler for peace »

SPORTS

1930

Bobby Jones wins U.S. Amateur title »

VIETNAM WAR

1967

Antiwar sentiment increases »

1969

Thieu comments on Nixon’s Vietnamization policy »

WORLD WAR I

1915

John Kipling killed at the Battle of Loos »

WORLD WAR II

1939

Poland surrenders »

1940

The Tripartite Pact is signed by Germany, Italy, and Japan »