1529 Ottoman Suleiman the Magnificent began the siege of Vienna.
1664 The Dutch surrendered Manhattan to the British.
1908 The first Model T Ford rolled off the assembly line.
1959 Republican President Dwight Eisenhower ordered the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division, which held at Bastogne, to protect school children in Little Rock Arkansas from Bible thumping gorgons baying for blood. 
1979 Compuserve offered online services to consumers.
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