1496 - Jews are expelled from Syria.
1930 - Mohandas Gandhi begins 300km march protesting British salt tax.
1947 - President Harry S. Truman announced what became known as the “Truman Doctrine” to help Greece and Turkey resist Communism.
1864 - In 1864, Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant assumed command as General-in-Chief of the Union armies in the Civil War.
1994 -The Church of England ordained women priests for the first time in 460 years.
1933 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave the first of his nation-wide "fireside chats" on radio