1737: First public admission to the Salon de Paris art exhibition at the Louvre in Paris

1838: United States Exploring Expedition headed by Charles Wilkes departs for the Pacific Ocean and Antarctica

1919: Anti-Cigarette League of America forms in Chicago, Illinois

1920: State Representative Harry T. Burn (24) casts the deciding vote in Tennessee’s and thus America’s ratification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, allowing women’s suffrage after reading a letter from his mother

1940: Battle of Britain: Air battle known as “The Hardest Day” occurs; the Luftwaffe loses approximately 69 aircraft and the RAF 68 in one of the largest ever air battles

Source: Onthisday.com