Today in history

1349: 3,000 Jews were killed in Black Death riots in Efurt, Germany.

1790: Thomas Jefferson reported to U.S. President George Washington as the new secretary of state.

1804: The French civil code, the Code Napoleon, was adopted.

1824: A fire at a Cairo ammunitions dump killed 4,000 horses.

1826: The Rensselaer School in Troy, N.Y., was incorporated. The school became known as Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and was the first engineering college in the U.S.