Source: HistoryNet.com
1815: Federalists from all over New England, angered over the War of 1812, draw up the Hartford Convention, demanding several important changes in the U.S. Constitution.
1904: American Marines arrive in Seoul, Korea, to guard the U.S. legation there.
1914: Henry Ford astounds the world as he announces that he will pay a minimum wage of $5 a day and will share with employees $10 million in the previous year's profits.
1920: GOP women demand equal representation at the Republican National Convention in June.
1921: Wagner's "Die Walkyrie" opens in Paris. This is the first German opera performed in Paris since the beginning of World War I.
1925: Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming is sworn in as the first woman governor in the United States.
1936: Daggha Bur, Ethiopia, is bombed by the Italians.
1947: Great Britain nationalizes its coal mines.
1952: Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives in Washington to confer with President Harry S. Truman.
1968: U.S. forces in Vietnam launch Operation Niagara I to locate enemy units around the Marine base at Khe Sanh.
1969: President Richard M. Nixon appoints Henry Cabot Lodge as negotiator at the Paris Peace Talks.
1971: President Richard M. Nixon names Robert Dole as chairman of the Republican National Party.
1982: A Federal judge voids a state law requiring balanced classroom treatment of evolution and creationism.
1991: The South Ossetia War (1991-92) begins as Georgian forces enter Tskhinvali, capital of South Ossetia, Georgia.
2005: Eris, largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System is discovered in images taken Oct. 21, 2003, at Palomar Observatory.