Whole Lotta History Went On

Per Historynet.com, anyway. Just a few examples:

1501: Arthur Tudor of England marries Katherine of Aragon.
1812: As Napoleon Bonaparte‘s army retreats form [sic] Moscow, temperatures drop to 20 degrees below zero.
1851: Herman Melville’s novel Moby Dick is published in New York.
1908: Albert Einstein presents his quantum theory of light.
1910: Lieutenant Eugene Ely, U.S. Navy, becomes the first man to take off in an airplane from the deck of a ship. He flew from the ship Birmingham at Hampton Roads to Norfolk.
1921: The Cherokee Indians ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review their claim to 1 million acres of land in Texas.
1922: The British Broadcasting Company (BBC) begins the first daily radio broadcasts from Marconi House.
1930: Right-wing militarists in Japan attempt to assassinate Premier Hamaguchi.
1935: Manuel Luis Quezon is sworn in as the first Filipino president, as the Commonwealth of the Philippines is inaugurated.

One item Historynet missed:

Vietnam War

1967

Marine general killed in Vietnam

Maj. Gen. Bruno Hochmuth, commander of the 3rd Marine Division, is killed when the helicopter in which he is travelling is shot down. He was the most senior U.S. officer to be killed in action in the war to date.