Lawrence of Arabia / Munich Act / Ethernet / James Dean

-1520

Suleiman the Magnificent succeeded his father, Selim I, as the Ottoman Sultan and ruled until 1566.

-1846

American dentist Dr. William Morton was the first to use anesthetic ether when he performed a tooth extraction.

-1862

Otto von Bismarck, the leader of Prussia, delivered his famous "Blood and Iron" speech on the unification of German lands.

-1868

The first volume of Louisa May Alcott’s book Little Women was published.

-1918

Arab and Australian forces arrive in Damascus under T. E. Lawrence to capture from the Turks during World War I.

-1938

The Munich Pact, signed by Hitler, Mussolini, Daladier, and Chamberlain, forced Czechoslovakia to cede territory to Germany.

-1946

Twenty-two Nazi leaders, including Joachim von Ribbentrop and Hermann Goering, were convicted of war crimes and sentenced at the Nuremberg trials.

-1949

The Berlin Airlift ended after 15 months and more than 250,000 flights.

-1954

USS Nautilus—the world’s first nuclear submarine—was commissioned.

-1955

24-year-old actor James Dean dies in Cholame, California, when his Porsche collides with a Ford Tudor sedan.

-1962

Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez founded the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA).

-1980

Xerox publishes Ethernet specifications in collaboration with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC).