1789 1st US electoral college chooses George Washington as President and John Adams as Vice President.
1938 Adolf Hitler seizes control of German army and puts Nazis in key posts.
1969 The Palestine National Congress appoints Yasser Arafat chairman of the PLO
1973 British Army snipers shoot dead a Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer and three civilians at the junction in Belfast during the 'Troubles' in N Ireland.
1974 Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb explodes on a bus in West Yorkshire, England, carrying British Army soldiers and some of their family members.
2004 Mark Zuckerberg launches Facebook from his Harvard dormitory room.
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