1122 - Concordat of Worms agreed between Pope Calixtus II and Holy Roman Emperor Henry V
1821 - Fall of Tripolitsa, Greece, massacre of 30.000 Turks.
1884 - American Herman Hollerith patents his mechanical tabulating machine.
1889 -
Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) founded by Fusajiro
Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda.
1942 - The 'Manhattan Project' commences, under the direction of US General Leslie Groves: its aim - to deliver an atomic bomb.
1666 - Princess Maria of Orange-Nassau marries Mauritius earl of Simmeren
1862 - Russian novelist and author of "War and Peace" Leo Tolstoy (34) marries Sophia Andreevna Behrs (18) daughter of a physician
1933 - Ganster Sam Giancana (25) weds Angeline De Tolve
1989 - Tennis Ace Zina Garrison (25) weds businessman Willard Jackson (25) at the Windsor Village United Methodist Church in Houston
1996 - Actor-comedian Jim Carrey (35) weds "Dumb and Dumber" actress Lauren Holly (33) in Malibu
