Gold discovered at Sutter's Creek, 1848

LEAD STORY

First canned beer goes on sale, 1935

AMERICAN REVOLUTION

Light Horse and Swamp Fox raid Georgetown, South Carolina, 1781

AUTOMOTIVE

Albert Erskine, Studebaker chief, is born, 1871

CIVIL WAR

Confederate Congress agrees to resume prisoner exchanges,1865

COLD WAR

U.S. announces military equipment sales to China, 1980

CRIME

Emmett Till murderers make magazine confession, 1956

DISASTER

Chile suffers killer quake, 1939

GENERAL INTEREST

Boy Scouts movement begins, 1908

Winston Churchill dies,1965

Japanese soldier found hiding on Guam, 1972

HOLLYWOOD

Walt Disney announces $7.4 billion purchase of Pixar, 2006

LITERARY

Edith Wharton is born,1862

MUSIC

Aretha Franklin's career is reborn, 1967

OLD WEST

Gold discovered at Sutter's Creek, 1848

PRESIDENTIAL

Nixon honors Eugene Ormandy, 1970

SPORTS

Mike Bossy scores 50th goal in 50 NHL games,1981

VIETNAM WAR

Operation Masher/White Wing/Thang Phong II launched, 1966

Truce is expected in Laos and Cambodia, 1973

WORLD WAR I

British and German navies battle at the Dogger Bank, 1915

WORLD WAR II

Von Paulus to Hitler: Let us surrender!, 1943