On this day in history
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Source: HistoryNet.com
1504: Michelangelo's 13-foot marble statue of David is unveiled in Florence, Italy.
1565: Spanish explorers found St. Augustine, Florida, the first permanent European settlement in what is now the United States.
1644: The Dutch colony of New Amsterdam surrenders to the British fleet that sails into its harbor. Five years later, the British change the name to New York.
1760: The French surrender the city of Montreal to the British.
1906: Robert Turner invents the automatic typewriter return carriage.
1960: Penguin Books in Britain is charged with obscenity for trying to publish the D.H. Lawrence novel Lady Chatterley's Lover.
