by Bob Walsh
In 876 the First Battle of Andernach took place between the forces of the West Frankish King Charles the Bald and the East Frankish King Louis the Younger. Charlie won, in case anybody actually cares.
In 1871 the Great Chicago Fire started, in the O'Leary barn, though probably not by a cow kicking over a lantern. It burned down about 1/3 of the city during the following 24 hours, and incidentally made the Roosevelt family rich(er) in the replacement glass market.
In 1918 Alvin York killed 28 Germans and captured 132 all by himself, earning a Congressional Medal of Honor as well as a Croix de Guerre from the French.
In 1919 the U. S. congress passed the Volstead Act, beginning an interesting but ultimately destructive social experiment called Prohibition.
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