1987 B.B. King donates his 7,000 record collection to the University of Mississippi
1978 Bee Gees’ album “Saturday Night Fever” goes #1 for 24 weeks
1789 1st American novel, WH Brown’s “Power of Sympathy” is published
1793 Louis XVI of France is executed by the guillotine in Paris, following his conviction for high treason
1846 1st edition of Charles Dickens’ newspaper “The Daily News”
1861 Jefferson Davis of Mississippi and 4 other southern senators resign (U.S Civil War)
1899 Opel manufactures its first automobile
1903 Harry Houdini escapes from Halvemaansteeg police station in Amsterdam
