1664 After days of negotiation, the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam surrenders to the British, who will rename it New York.

1877 The great Sioux warrior Crazy Horse is fatally bayoneted at age 36 by a soldier at Fort Robinson, Nebraska.

1910 Marie Curie demonstrates the transformation of radium ore to metal at the Academy of Sciences in France.

1944 Germany launches its first V-2 missile at Paris, France.

1977 Voyager 1 space probe launched.

Born this day

1568 Tommaso Campanella, Italian philosopher and poet, who wrote City of the Sun.

1940 Raquel Welch, actress (One Million Years B.C., Myra Breckinridge).

1945 Al Stewart, singer, songwriter, musician ("Year of the Cat," "Roads to Moscow").