On this day in history
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1609: The Bermuda Islands become an English colony.
1664: New Jersey becomes a British colony.
1789: The United States Post Office is established.
1809: Great Britain signs a treaty with Persia forcing the French out of the country.
1884: Mississippi establishes the first U.S. state college for women.
1894: Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time.
1903: The Czar of Russia issues a decree providing for nominal freedom of religion throughout the land.
1911: Dr. Fletcher of the Rockefeller Institute discovers the cause of infantile paralysis.
1912: Juliet Low founds the Girl Scouts in Savannah, Georgia.
1930: Gandhi begins his march to the sea to symbolizes his defiance of British rule in India.
1933: President Roosevelt makes the first of his Sunday evening fireside chats.
1939: Pius XII is elected the new pope in Rome.
1944: Great Britain bars all travel to neutral Ireland, which is suspected of collaborating with Nazi Germany.
1945: Diarist Anne Frank dies in a German concentration camp.
1985: The United States and the Soviet Union begin arms control talks in Geneva.
1994: The Church of England ordains women priests.
Source: HistoryNet.com
