1. 1812 - As Napoleon Bonaparte‘s army retreats form Moscow, temperatures drop to 20 degrees below zero.
2. 1833 - CharlesDarwin departs by horse to Montevideo.
3.
1889 - Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian nationalist leader.
4.
1940 - German bombers devastate Coventry in
Great Britain, killing 1,000
in the worst air raid of the war.
5.
1960 - President Dwight Eisenhower orders
U.S. naval units into the Caribbean after Guatemala and Nicaragua charge Castro
with starting uprisings.
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