Oh, heck! I didn't look at the date! This was started yesterday, so I should have been looking at the 14th:

1215 King John sealed the Magna Carta.
1775 George Washington was appointed head of the Continental Army by the Second Continental Congress.
1836 Arkansas became the 25th state in the United States.
1844 Charles Goodyear was granted a patent for rubber vulcanization.
1849 James Polk, the 11th president of the United States, died in Nashville, Tennessee.
1923 Lou Gehrig made his New York Yankee debut as a pinch runner.

So ... still no contenders!

Apologies then for a belated greeting! (I was out with work all day!)

sian