On this day in...

On this day in...
1215 – The Fourth Lateran Council meets, defining the doctrine of transubstantiation, the process by which bread and wine are transformed into the body and blood of Christ.
1620 – The Mayflower Compact is signed in what is now Provincetown Harbor near Cape Cod.
1750 – The F.H.C. Society, also known as the Flat Hat Club, is formed at Raleigh Tavern, Williamsburg, Virginia. It is the first college fraternity.
1831 – In Jerusalem, Virginia, Nat Turner is hanged after inciting a violent slave uprising.
1839 – The Virginia Military Institute is founded in Lexington, Virginia.
1864 – American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea – Union General William Tecumseh Sherman begins burning Atlanta, Georgia to the ground in preparation for his march south.
1889 – Washington is admitted as the 42nd U.S. state.
1918 – World War I ends: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car outside of Compiègne in France. The war officially stops at 11:00 (The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month) this is annually honoured with two-minutes of silence.
1921 – The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery.
1992 – The Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.
2004 – Yasser Arafat is confirmed dead by the Palestine Liberation Organization, of unidentified causes. Mahmoud Abbas is elected chairman of the PLO minutes later.

Births
1951 – Marc Summers, American game show host
1960 – Stanley Tucci, American actor and director
1962 – Demi Moore, American actress
1964 – Calista Flockhart, American actress
1980 – Willie Parker, American football player

Pretty weak on birthdays today but there's a lot of history going on today including the first ever fraternity getting started. It sounds like a badass frat. Trust me, if there was a Flat Hat Club at Tech when I went to school I would have joined that thing in a heartbeat. Not sure what a flat hat is though.