1631 ..... FRANCE ..... Pierre Gassendi made his FIRST observation of the transit of a planet when Mercury crossed between the Sun and the Earth. The next time it occurred was on November 14th 1999 

1789 ..... U.S.A ..... Father John Carroll was appointed the FIRST Roman Catholic bishop in America

1869 ..... U.S.A ..... America's FIRST inter-collegiate football game was played when Rutgers defeated the College of New Jersey ( later named Princeton University) 6-4 in a round-ball game resembling soccer

1916 ….. U.S.A ..... Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the FIRST woman elected to Congress

1935 .....  U.K ..... the RAF’s FIRST monoplane fighter, the Hawker Hurricane, made its maiden flight . The test pilot was Paul Ward Spencer Bulman 

1996 ..... U.S.A ..... Bill Clinton became the FIRST Democrat to be re-elected US President for a second term since 1944, when he beat the Republican challenger Bob Dole

2000  ..... U.S.A ..... Hillary Rodham Clinton made history as the FIRST U.S president's wife to win public office

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