1703 – Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg. Then it’s Leningrad. and now it’s Saint Petersburg again.

1919 – Charles Strite patents pop-up toaster.

1919 – The US navy NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first transatlantic flight. Wasn’t even close to being non-stop, and two sister aircraft, NC-1 and NC-3 didn’t make it.

1941 – World War II: The German battleship Bismarck is sunk in the North Atlantic killing almost 2,100 men.

1995 – In Culpeper, Virginia, actor Christopher Reeve is paralyzed from the neck down after falling from his horse in a riding competition, becoming the Left’s favorite vegetable.