On this day in history
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1799: Napoleon Bonaparte captures Jaffa, Palestine.
1804: The territory of New Orleans is organized in the Louisiana Purchase.
1827: German composer Ludwig Van Beethoven dies in Vienna.
1885: Eastman Film Co. manufactures the first commercial motion picture film.
1942: The Germans begin sending Jews to Auschwitz in Poland.
1951: The United States Air Force flag design is approved.
1953: Dr. Jonas Salk announces a new vaccine against polio.
1954: The United States sets off an H-bomb blast in the Marshall Islands, the second in four weeks.
1969: The Soviet weather Satellite Meteor 1 is launched.
1979: The Camp David treaty is signed between Israel and Egypt.
1982: Ground is broken in Washington D.C. for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
1989: The first free elections take place in the Soviet Union. Boris Yeltsin is elected.
1992: An Indianapolis court finds heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson guilty of rape.
Source: HistoryNet.com
