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1	2021 – A coup d'état in Myanmar removes Aung San Suu Kyi from power and restores military rule. 2005 – King Gyanendra of Nepal carries out a coup d'état to capture the democracy, becoming Chairman of the Councils of ministers. 2003 - The space shuttle Columbia was disintegrated as it tried to reenter the Earth's atmosphere after a sixteen-day mission in space; all seven members of the crew were dead. 2002 - Japanese Prime Minster Junichiro Koizumi names Yoriko Kawaguchi to be foreign minister. 1979 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Iran after 15 years of exile. 1979 - Gen Nguyen Ngoc Loan, Saigon's police chief, shoots to the head of a Viet Cong officer, and the image captured in a famous news photograph. 1972 - The 1st scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) introduced ($395). 1958 - The 1st US satellite (Explorer I) launched 1953 - Flooding in Netherlands, kills 1,835. 1950 – The first prototype of the MiG-17 makes its maiden flight. 1949 - RCA releases 1st single record ever (45 rpm). 1946 - The first electronic digital computer, ENIAC, is announced at U of Penn. 1942 – Voice of America, the official external radio and television service of the United States government, begins broadcasting. 1929 - The first Hollywood musical debuts. 1898 - The first auto insurance policy is issued. 1893 - Thomas Edison completed construction of the world’s first motion picture studio, known as the "Black Maria," in New Jersey. 1887 - Hollywood was officially registered as a real estate development in Southern California by Harvey Wilcox. 1884 - The first volume (A-Ant) of the Oxford English Dictionary is published. 1878 - Hattie Caraway (February 1, 1878 – December 21, 1950) the first woman elected to serve a full term as a the U.S. Senator, is born in Bakersville, Tennessee 1865 - Abraham Lincoln signs the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, abolishing slavery. 1861 - Texas secedes from the United States to join the Confederacy. 1790 - The first session of the U.S. Supreme Court is held in New York City.
2	2021 – The Burmese military establishes the State Administration Council, the military junta, after deposing the democratically elected government in the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état. 2003 - Czech Republic President Vaclav Havel steps down after 13 years. 1998 - Philippine DC-9 crashed, killing all 104. 1995 - US space shuttle Discovery launched. 1993 - Frito Lay pays court ordered $2,500,000 to Tom Wait for using his song. 1991 - US postage is raised from 25 cents to 29 cents. 1990 - South African President F. W. de Klerk lifts the 30-year-old ban on the African National Congress. 1986 - Dalai Lama meets Pope John Paul II in India. 1982 - "Late Night With David Letterman," debuts on NBC-TV. 1967 - Bolivia adopts its constitution. 1962 - First US Air Force plane is crashed in Vietnam. 1959 - Public schools in Arlington and Norfolk, Virginia, began peaceful desegregation, a major step following the "Massive Resistance" to integration. 1958 - Syria joins Egypt in United Arab Republic 1955 - 1st presidential news conference held by Eisenhower on ABC-TV. 1951 - US performs nuclear test at a Nevada Test site. 1934 – The Export-Import Bank of the United States is incorporated. 1933 - Two days after becoming chancellor, Adolf Hitler dissolves Parliament. 1923 - Lead gasoline is introduced in the market. 1943 - The remainder of Nazi forces from the Battle of Stalingrad surrendered. 1897 - Black inventor Alfred Cralle patented the first ice cream scoop, a design that remains largely unchanged today. 1887 - The first official Groundhog Day was celebrated at Gobbler's Knob in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. 1880 - First electric streetlight is installed. 1876 - The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs is formed. 1848 - The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed, ending the Mexican-American War and ceding 525,000 square miles—including California and Texas—to the U.S. 1626 - King Charles I was officially crowned King of England, a reign eventually marked by civil war. 1536 - The city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, is founded by Spanish conquistador Pedro de Mendoza.
3	2009 - 1st male African-American Attorney General, Eric Himpton Holder, Jr, is appointed. 2004 - NASA’s Opportunity rover successfully landed on Mars. 1998 - Stamps commemorating Princess Diana go on sale across Britain. 1995 - Col. Eileen Collins becomes the first woman to pilot the space shuttle. 1995 - STS 63 (Discovery 19), launches into orbit. 1994 - President Bill Clinton lifts US trade embargo against Vietnam. 1994 - Clinton ends Vietnam trade embargo. 1995 – Astronaut Eileen Collins becomes the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle as mission STS-63 gets underway from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. 1994 - STS-60 (Discovery) launches into orbit, carrying Sergei Krikalev, the first Russian cosmonaut to fly aboard the Shuttle. 1984 – Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B is launched using Space Shuttle Challenger. 1984 – Doctor John Buster and a research team at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in the United States announce history's first embryo transfer, from one woman to another resulting in a live birth. 1966 - 1st operational weather satellite, ESSA-1 launched US 1966 – The Soviet Union's Luna 9 becomes the first spacecraft to make a soft landing on the Moon, and the first spacecraft to take pictures from the surface of the Moon. 1962 - President Kennedy bans all trade with Cuba except for food & drugs. 1950 - Nuclear physicist Klaus Fuchs arrested for passing atomic bomb information. 1942 - 1st Japanese air raid on Java. 1930 – The Communist Party of Vietnam is founded at a "Unification Conference" held in Kowloon, British Hong Kong. 1924 - President Woodrow Wilson dies. 1917 – WWI: The American entry into World War I begins when diplomatic relations with Germany are severed due to its unrestricted submarine warfare. 1913 - The 16th Amendment, establishing federal income tax, is ratified. 1870 – The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing voting rights to male citizens regardless of race. 1863 - Samuel Clemens first used his famous pen name, "Mark Twain," while reporting for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise. 1821 - The first American female physician, Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910) was born near Bristol, England. 1783 - Spain formally recognized the independence of the United States. 1690 - The Massachusetts Bay Colony issued the first paper money in the American colonies to pay soldiers during the war against Quebec. 1468 - Johann Gutenberg, German printer and inventor, died.
4	2023 - A U.S. fighter jet shot down a Chinese surveillance balloon off the coast of South Carolina after it had drifted across the continental United States. 2004 – Facebook, a mainstream online social networking site, is founded by Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin. 2004 - The Massachusetts Supreme Court declared that gays had the right to marry. 2003 – The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia adopts a new constitution, becoming a loose confederacy between Montenegro and Serbia. 1999 – Unarmed West African immigrant Amadou Diallo is shot 41 times by four plainclothes New York City police officers on an unrelated stake-out, inflaming race relations in the city. 1985 - 25 countries in the United Nations signed "Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment." 1992 – A coup d'état is led by Hugo Chávez against Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez. 1976 - 7.5 earthquake kills 22,778 in Guatemala & Honduras. 1969 - PLO is found. 1962 - First U.S. helicopter is shot down in Vietnam. 1957 - 1st electric portable typewriter placed on sale (Syracuse NY). 1948 – Ceylon (later renamed Sri Lanka) becomes independent within the British Commonwealth. 1945 - Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin meet at the Yalta Conference. 1941 - United Service Organization (USO) founded. 1938 - Walt Disney released Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the first full-length animated feature film. 1938 - Hitler seizes control of German army & puts Nazi in key posts. 1938 – Adolf Hitler appoints himself as head of the Armed Forces High Command. 1932 - The United States hosted its first Winter Olympic Games in Lake Placid, New York. 1899 – The Philippine–American War begins when four Filipino soldiers enter the "American Zone" in Manila, igniting the Battle of Manila. 1887 - The Interstate Commerce Act was signed into law, establishing the first federal regulatory agency in U.S. history to oversee the railroad industry. 1861 - Apache Chief Cochise was arrested by the U.S. Army, an event that sparked the 25-year-long Apache Wars. 1847 - 1st US telegraph co established in Maryland. 1822 - Free American Blacks settle Liberia, West Africa. 1794 - The French National Convention abolished slavery in all French territories, though it was later briefly reinstated under Napoleon. 1789 – George Washington is unanimously elected as the first President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College. 1703 - In Edo (Tokyo), 46 of the Forty-seven Ronin committed ritual suicide (seppuku) as punishment for avenging their master's death. 960 – Zhao Kuangyin declares himself Emperor Taizu of Song, ending the Later Zhou and beginning the Song dynasty.
5	2023 - Beyoncé won her 32nd Grammy Award, setting a new record for the most Grammy wins by any individual in history. 2020 – U.S. President Donald Trump is acquitted by the United States Senate in his first impeachment trial. 1997 - Three of Switzerland's biggest banks create a fund worth 100 million Swiss francs for Holocaust victims and their families. 1994 - The last Soviet troops leave Kabul. 1988 - Noriega is indicted on U.S. drug charges. 1987 - Soyuz TM-2 launches. 1980 - Egyptian parliament votes to end boycott of Israel. 1972 - US airlines begin mandatory inspection of passengers & baggages. 1971 - Apollo 14, 3rd US manned Moon expedition, lands near Fra Mauro Alan Shepard & Edward Mitchell (Apollo 14) walk on Moon for 4 hrs. 1969 - US population reaches 200 million. 1958 – A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered. 1958 – Gamal Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic. 1952 - First "Don't Walk" sign is installed 1936 - National Wildlife Federation forms. 1919 – Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D. W. Griffith launch United Artists. 1922 - Reader's Digest began its first publication in New York City. 1917 - Congress passed the Immigration Act, which restricted Asian immigration, over President Wilson's veto. 1917 - Mexico adopts its present constitution. 1907 – Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of Bakelite, the world's first synthetic plastic. 1905 – In Mexico, the General Hospital of Mexico is inaugurated, started with four basic specialties. 1885 – King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo as a personal possession. 1878 - First France's Citroen car is built. 1870 - The first motion picture shown to a theater audience was screened in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1869 - The world’s largest alluvial gold nugget, known as the "Welcome Stranger," was discovered in Moliagul, Australia. 1859 - Wallachia and Moldavia were united under Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza, marking the birth of the modern Romanian state. 1852 – The New Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, one of the largest and oldest museums in the world, opens to the public. 1783 - Sweden formally recognized the independence of the United States following the Revolutionary War. 1778 - South Carolina became the second state to ratify the Articles of Confederation, the first constitution of the United States. 1597 – A group of early Japanese Christians are killed by the new government of Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese society.
6	2018 – SpaceX's Falcon Heavy, a super heavy launch vehicle, makes its maiden flight. 2006 – Stephen Harper becomes Prime Minister of Canada. 1998 – Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport. 1987 - No-smoking rules take effect in federal buildings. 1976 – In testimony before a United States Senate subcommittee, Lockheed Corporation president Carl Kotchian admits that the company had paid out approximately $3 million in bribes to the office of Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka. 1973 - 40,000 civil servants demonstrate against higher pension contribution. 1971 - Astronaut Alan B. Shepard hit a golf ball and Edgar Mitchell threw a "javelin" on the moon. They landed in the same crater and remain on the Moon today. 1959 – At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished. 1959 – Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments files the first patent for an integrated circuit, a cornerstone of modern electronics. 1954 - Mercedes 300SL debuts 1952 – Elizabeth II becomes Queen of the United Kingdom upon the death of her father, George VI. 1951 – The Canadian Army enters combat in the Korean War. 1933 - The 20th Amendment to the Constitution, which set the date for the president's inauguration on Jan. 20, is adopted. 1918 – British women over the age of 30 who meet minimum property qualifications, get the right to vote when Representation of the People Act 1918 is passed by Parliament. 1917 - German sub sinks U.S. passenger ship "California". 1911 - President Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) is born in Tampico, Illinois. 1899 - The U.S. Senate ratified the Treaty of Paris, officially ending the Spanish-American War. 1895 - Legendary baseball player George Herman "Babe" Ruth (1895-1948) is born in Baltimore, Maryland. 1865 – The municipal administration of Finland is established. 1840 – Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, establishing New Zealand as a British colony. 1833 – Otto becomes the first modern King of Greece. 1820 - Freed U.S. slaves departs back to Africa: The first 86 African American immigrants sponsored by the American Colonization Society depart New York to start a settlement in present-day Liberia. 1819 – The Treaty of Singapore was signed by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, Hussein Shah of Johor, and Temenggong Abdul Rahman, and it is now recognised as the founding of modern Singapore. 1804 - Joseph Priestley, British chemist, died; his work on the isolation of gases led him to discover oxygen in 1774. 1788 – Massachusetts becomes the sixth state to ratify the United States Constitution. 1778 – New York became the third state to ratify the Articles of Confederation. 1685 – King James II ascended the throne of England and Ireland following the death of his brother, Charles II.
7	2014 – Scientists announce that the Happisburgh footprints in Norfolk, England, date back to more than 800,000 years ago, making them the oldest known hominid footprints outside Africa. 2013 – The U.S. state of Mississippi officially certifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was formally ratified by Mississippi in 1995. 2012 – President Mohamed Nasheed of the Republic of Maldives resigns, after 23 days of anti-governmental protests calling for the release of the Chief Judge unlawfully arrested by the military. 2001 – Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on mission STS-98, carrying the Destiny laboratory module to the International Space Station. 1999 – Crown Prince Abdullah becomes the King of Jordan on the death of his father, King Hussein. 1992 - The Maastricht Treaty is signed by 12 European nations, formally establishing the European Union. 1991 - Jean-Bertrand Aristide sworn in as first democratically-elected president of Haiti. 1990 – Dissolution of the Soviet Union: The Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party agrees to give up its monopoly on power. 1990 - Labour Party forms in England. 1986 – Twenty-eight years of one-family rule end in Haiti, when Haiti's President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees the Caribbean nation to France, Henri Namphy becomes leader of Haiti 1984 - First human leaves Shuttle to fly in space. Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart went on the first untethered spacewalk. 1979 – Pluto moves inside Neptune's orbit for the first time since either was discovered. 1977 - Soyuz 24 launches with 2 cosmonauts. 1976 - World's largest telescope (600 cm) begins operation (USSR). 1974 – Grenada gains independence from the United Kingdom. 1971 - Women in Switzerland were finally granted women the right to vote. 1968 - Forensic evidence for crime solving is introduced. 1964 – The Beatles land in the United States for the first time, at the newly renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport. 1962 - U.S. President John F. Kennedy broadened the U.S. embargo against Cuba, effectively halting all trade (imports and exports) between the two nations. 1959 - Castro proclaims new Cuban constitution. 1943 - Shoe rationing begins in US (may purchase up to 3 more pairs in 1942). 1940 – The second full-length animated Walt Disney film, Pinocchio, premieres. 1915 - 1st wireless message sent from a moving train to a station received. 1905 - Oklahoma admitted to statehood. 1904 - The Great Baltimore Fire began, destroying over 1,500 buildings and leading to the standardization of firefighting equipment across the U.S. 1812 - British novelist Charles Dickens (1812-1870), who wrote famous "A Christmas Carol", was born in Portsmouth, England. 1795 - The 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, restricting the ability of individuals to bring suit against states in federal court. 1613 - Mikhail Romanov was elected Tsar of Russia by the Zemsky Sobor, beginning the 300-year Romanov dynasty.
8	2002 - The XIX Olympic Winter Games open in Salt Lake City, UT. ran through February 24, 2002. 1996 - President Clinton signed legislation revamping the telecommunications industry. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 allows any communications business to compete in the US market. 1974 – The crew of Skylab 4, the last mission to visit the American space station Skylab, returns to Earth after 84 days in space. 1971 – South Vietnamese ground troops launch an incursion into Laos to try to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail and stop communist infiltration into the country. 1971 - The NASDAQ stock market began its first day of trading as the world's first electronic stock exchange. 1963 – The regime of Prime Minister of Iraq Abd al-Karim Qasim is overthrown by the Ba'ath Party. 1960 – The Hollywood Walk of Fame is founded. 0 – The Stasi, the secret police of East Germany, is established. 1950 - The Stasi, the notorious secret police of East Germany, was formally established. 1946 – The People's Republic of Korea is dissolved in the North and replaced by the communist-controlled Provisional People's Committee of North Korea. 1942 – World War II: Japan invades Singapore. 1933 - 1st flight of all-metal Boeing 247. 1928 - Scottish inventor J Blaird demonstrates color-TV. 1926 - Walt Disney Studios forms. 1924 - The first coast-to-coast radio broadcast takes place. 1924 - The first execution by lethal gas is carried out. 1910 – The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce in Washington, D.C. 1904 - The Russo-Japanese War begins. 1887 – The Dawes Severalty Act is enacted, authorizing the U.S. President to divide Native American tribal land into individual allotments. 1885 – The first Japanese immigrants arrive in Hawaii. 1879 - Sandford Fleming first proposed the adoption of Universal Standard Time and the division of the world into 24 time zones. 1870 - The National Weather Service was established under the U.S. Army Signal Corps. 1867 - The Austro-Hungarian Compromise was established, creating the "Dual Monarchy" and granting the Kingdom of Hungary significant autonomy within the Austrian Empire. 1837 – Richard Johnson becomes the first and only Vice President of the United States chosen by the Senate. 1807 – Napoleon defeats the coalition forces of Russian General Bennigsen and Prussian General L'Estocq at the Battle of Eylau. 1725 - Peter the Great, the Emperor who modernized Russia, died in Saint Petersburg and was succeeded by his wife, Catherine I. 1693 – The College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, the second-oldest institution of higher education in the Thirteen Colonies, is granted a charter by King William III and Queen Mary II. 1622 - King James I formally dissolved the English Parliament following disputes over foreign policy and royal privileges. 1587 - Mary Queen of Scots was beheaded. 1238 – The Mongols burn the Russian city of Vladimir.
9	2021 – Second impeachment trial of Donald Trump begins. 2018 – Winter Olympics: Opening ceremony is performed in Pyeongchang County in South Korea. 1995 - Bernard Harris became the first African American astronaut to perform a spacewalk. 1991 – Dissolution of the Soviet Union: Voters in Lithuania vote overwhelmingly for independence from the Soviet Union. 1975 – The Soyuz 17 Soviet spacecraft returns to Earth. 1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third human Moon landing. 1969 - The Boeing 747, the world's first wide-body commercial "Jumbo Jet," makes 1st commercial flight 1965 – Vietnam War: The United States Marine Corps sends a MIM-23 Hawk missile battalion to South Vietnam, the first American troops in-country without an official advisory or training mission. 1964 – The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing before a record-setting audience of 73 million viewers across the United States. 1959 – The R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile, becomes operational at Plesetsk, USSR. 1943 - American forces won the battle of Guadalcanal over Japanese forces in the Southwest Pacific. 1942 – Year-round Daylight saving time (aka War Time) is reinstated in the United States as a wartime measure to help conserve energy resources. 1932 – Prohibition law is abolished in Finland after a national referendum, where 70% voted for a repeal of the law. 1929 – Members of the Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng assassinate the labor recruiter Bazin, prompting a crackdown by French colonial authorities. 1900 – The Davis Cup competition is established. 1895 - William G. Morgan invented a game called "Mintonette" at a YMCA in Massachusetts, which quickly became known as volleyball. 1889 – US president Grover Cleveland signs a bill elevating the United States Department of Agriculture to a Cabinet-level agency. 1942 - Daylight saving time instituted. 1870 – US president Ulysses S. Grant signs a joint resolution of Congress establishing the U.S. Weather Bureau (now the National Weather Service). 1861 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected the Provisional President of the Confederate States of America by the Provisional Confederate Congress at Montgomery, Alabama. 1849 – The new Roman Republic is declared. 1825 – After no candidate receives a majority of electoral votes in the US presidential election of 1824, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams as sixth President of the United States in a contingent election. 1778 – Rhode Island becomes the fourth US state to ratify the Articles of Confederation. 1773 - President W. H. Harrion is born in Virginia. 1621 – Gregory XV becomes Pope, the last Pope elected by acclamation.
10	2009 - Two communications satellites, the American Iridium 33 and the Russian Kosmos 2251, collided in space, marking the first major accidental hypervelocity collision between two intact spacecraft. 2005 - North Korea publicly announced for the first time that it possessed nuclear weapons. 1997 - Soyuz TM-25 launches to the MIR. 1996 - IBM's computer, Deep Blue, beat the world chess champion, Garry Kasparov, in the first game of their match. 1989 – Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee, becoming the first African American to lead a major American political party. 1984 – Kenyan soldiers kill an estimated 5,000 ethnic Somali Kenyans in the Wagalla massacre. 1970 - Avalanche buries skiers in France. 1967 - The 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, establishing procedures for presidential succession and disability. 1957 - Southern Christian Leadership Conference forms. 1947 - The Paris Peace Treaties were signed by Italy, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Finland, formally ending their roles in World War II. 1942 - The first Medal of Honor was awarded to 2nd Lt. Alexander Nininger (posthumously) for heroism during the Battle of Bataan in World War 2. 1940 – The Soviet Union begins mass deportations of Polish citizens from occupied eastern Poland to Siberia. 1931 - New Delhi was officially inaugurated as the capital of India. 1930 – The Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng launches the failed Yên Bái mutiny in hope of overthrowing French protectorate over Vietnam. 1923 – Texas Tech University is founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas. 1906 - The HMS Dreadnought, a revolutionary battleship that rendered all previous capital ships obsolete, was launched by the British Royal Navy. 1863 - Alanson Crane received the first U.S. patent for a fire extinguisher. 1861 – Jefferson Davis is notified by telegraph that he has been chosen as provisional President of the Confederate States of America. 1855 - US citizenship laws amended all children of US parents born abroad granted US citizenship. 1846 - Religious leader Brigham Young led the first group of Mormons on their westward exodus from Nauvoo, Illinois, toward Utah. 1763 - Treaty of Paris is signed, ending the French and Indian War. France cedes Canada and all its North American territories east of the Mississippi to Great Britain. 1502 – Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal, on his second voyage to India.
11	2011 - Hosni Mubarak steps down as President of Egypt following 18 days of protests challenging his 30 year rule. 1997 - STS 82 (Discovery 22) launches. 1994 - Space shuttle STS-60 (Discovery 18), lands. 1990 - Nelson Mandela is released from prison after more than 27 years. 1989 - Avalanches plague central Europe. 1979 - Ayatollah Khomeini's followers seizes control of the Iran government. 1970 - Japan becomes the fourth country to put a satellite into orbit. 1964 - Taiwan drops diplomatic relations with France. 1945 - President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin signed the Yalta Agreement during World War II. 1937 - Simultaneous radio broadcast on all three networks. 1937 - The first major labor dispute (Flint, Michigan, Sit-Down Strike) in the U.S. auto industry ends after General Motors signs a contract with the United Auto Workers Union. 1929 - The Lateran Treaty is signed, in which Italy recognizes the independence and sovereignty of Vatican City. 1895 - Georgetown became part of Wash DC. 1847 - American inventor Thomas Edison (1847-1931), who held over 1,200 patents including the incandescent bulb, phonograph and movie camera, is born in Milan, Ohio. 1809 - Robert Fulton is patented the steamboat.
12	2002 - Milosevic goes on trial for war crimes. 1999 - Clinton's impeachment trial is ended (acquitted). 1972 - North Vietnam begins releasing U.S. POWs. 1938 - German troops entered Austria. 1934 - Export-Import Bank incorporates. 1912 - Pu Yi, the last emperor of the Manchu (Ch'ing) dynasty in China, renounced his throne following the establishment of a republic under Sun Yat-sen. 1870 - The Utah Territory grants women the right to vote (revoked in 1887). 1818 - Chile formally proclaimed its independence from Spain. 1809 - President Abraham Lincoln is born in Hardin County, Kentucky .
13	1997 - Discovery captures Hubble Space Telescope. 1974 - Dissident Nobel writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from USSR. 1961 - Soviet Union fires a rocket from Sputnik V to Venus. 1959 - Barbie doll goes on sale. 1948 - Wright Flyer, 1st plane to fly, returns to US from England. 1935 - 1st US surgical operation for relief of angina pectoris, Cleveland. 1895 - Movie-camera projector is patented to French inventors. 1861 - Abraham Lincoln declared president. 1693 - College of William & Mary (VA) opens. 1689 - British Parliament adopts Bill of Rights. 1633 - Galileo in Rome to face charges of his Copernican theory.
14	2002 - Emir Hamad iBn Isa al-Khalifah, ruler of Bahrain, proclaims himself king of Bahrain. 1989 - World's 1st satellite Skyphone opens. 1929 - The St. Valentine's Day Massacre took place in a Chicago garage as seven rivals of Al Capone's gang were gunned down. 1929 - Penicillin is discovered. 1924 - IBM Corporation founded by Thomas Watson. 1919 - United Parcel Service forms. 1903 - US Dept. of Commerce and Labor forms. 1912 - Arizona was admitted to the Union as the 48th state. 1899 - US Congress begins using voting machines. 1894 - Venus is both a morning star & evening star. 1884 - Theodore Roosevelt’s wife and mother die.
15	1995 - Population of People's Republic of China hits 1.2 billion. 1989 - Soviet military occupation of Afghanistan ends. 1984 - 500,000 Iranian soldiers move into Iraq. 1973 - USSR launches Prognoz 3 to study sun (589/200,300 km). 1965 - Canada replaces Union Jack flag with Maple Leaf. 1942 - Bristisch surrenders Singapore to Japan. 1936 - Hitler announce building of Volkswagens (starting slug-bug game). 1934 - Federal Emergency Relief Admin is established. 1926 - Contract air mail service begins in US. 1898 - The U.S. battleship Maine blew up in Havana Harbor, killing 260 crew members and escalating tensions with Spain. 1812 - First Tiffany store is opened. 1799 - 1st US printed ballots authorized, Pennsylvania. 0399 - Philosopher Socrates sentenced to death.
16	1961 - US satellite Explorer 9 is launched. 1959 - Fidel Castro is sworn in as PM of Cuba. 1956 - Britain abolishes death penalty. 1923 - Archaeologist opens tomb of King Tut (Egypt). 1900 - 1st Chinese daily newspaper in US publishes (Chung Sai Yat Po-SF). 1880 - American Society of Mechanical Engineers forms in New York city.
17	1995 - Federal judge allows lawsuit claiming US tobacco makers knew nicotine was addictive & manipulated its levels to keep customers hooked. 1979 - China invades Vietnam. 1972 - President Nixon departed on his historic trip to China. 1966 - French satellite Diapason D-1A launch into Earth orbit. 1959 - 1st weather satellite launched, Vanguard 2, 9.8 kg. 1947 - Voice of America begins broadcasts to Russia. 1878 - 1st telephone exchange in SF opens with 18 phones. 1867 - 1st ship passes through Suez Canal. 1801 - President Thomas Jefferson is elected.
18	1989 - Enzo Anselmo Ferrari, car designer legend, is born. 1979 - NASA launches space vehicle S-202. 1979 - Snow falls in Sahara Desert. 1974 - NASA launches Italian satellite San Marcos C-2 (235/843 km). 1968 - 10,000 demonstrators against US in Vietnam War in West-Berlin. 1930 - Pluto, the ninth planet, is discovered by US astronomer Clyde Tombaugh. 1929 - First Academy Awards is announced. 1927 - US & Canada begin diplomatic relations. 1908 - 1st US postage stamps in rolls issued. 1861 - Jefferson Davis was sworn in as President of the Confederate States of America in Montgomery, Ala. 1885 - Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," published. 1884 - Police seize all copies of Tolstoy's "What I Believe In". 1834 - 1st US labor newspaper, "The Man," published, New York city. 1804 - 1st US land-grant college, Ohio University, Athens Ohio, chartered. 1787 - Austrian emperor Jozef II bans children under 8 from labor.
19	1998 - Soyuz TM-26 lands. 1997 - FCC makes available 311 for non-emergency calls & 711 for hearing or speech-impaired emergency calls. 1990 - Soyuz TM-9 lands. 1987 - Reagan lifts trade boycott against Poland. 1986 - USSR launches Mir space station into Earth orbit. 1977 - Shuttle Enterprise makes 1st Test flight atop a 747 jetliner. 1977 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island. 1970 - USSR launches Sputnik 52 & Molniya 1-13 communications satellite. 1969 - 1st Test flight of Boeing 747 jumbo jet. 1963 - USSR informs JFK it's withdrawing several thousand troops from Cuba. 1952 - French offensive at Hanoi, Vietnam. 1945 - 30,000 marines invade Iwo Jima. 1942 - About 150 Japanese warplanes attacked Darwin city, Australian. 1942 - FDR orders detention & internment of all west-coast Japanese-Americans. 1934 - US contract air mail service canceled, replaced by US Army for 6 months. 1843 - Nicolaus Copernicus, a modern astronomer, is born. 1878 - Edison is patented for his phonograph invention. 1846 - Texas state government formally installed in Austin.
20	1983 - Japan launches Tenma satellite to study x-rays (450/570 km). 1962 - First orbital flight by an American astronaut. John Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth as he flew aboard the Friendship 7 Mercury capsule. 1943 - Inexperienced U.S. troops lost the first major battle of World War II in Europe at Kasserine Pass in North Africa. 1941 - Nazis order Polish Jews barred from using public transportation. 1937 - Legendary driver & designer Roger Penske is born. 1929 - American Samoa organizes as territory of US. 1831 - Polish revolutionaries defeat Russians in battle of Growchow. 1811 - Austria declares bankruptcy.
21	1996 - Soyuz TM-23, launched into orbit. 1981 - NASA launches Comstar D-4. 1981 - Japan launches Hinotori satellite to study solar flares (580/640 k). 1979 - Japan launches Hakucho x-ray satellite & Corsa-B (550/580 km). 1972 - Nixon makes the first US presidential visit to China. 1970 - Kissinger begins secret negotiations with North Vietnam. 1965 - Malcolm X, a former Black Muslim leader, is assassinated. He was shot and killed by assassins identified as Black Muslims as he was about to address a rally in New York City; he was 39. 1948 - NASCAR was officially incorporated. 1922 - Great Britain grants Egypt independence. 1885 - Washington Monument is built. 1795 - Freedom of worship established in France under constitution. 1732 - President George Washington is born in Virginia.
22	2011 - Over 160 people are killed after a magnitude 6.3 earthquake strikes the New Zealand city of Christchurch. 2005 - Hundreds people are killed after a magnitude 6.4 earthquake strikes near Zarand in Iran's Kerman province 1996 - STS 75 (Columbia 19), launches into orbit. 1967 - Suharto takes full power in Indonesia. 1924 - 1st presidential radio address (Calvin Coolidge). 1923 - The 1,000,000th Chevy was produced. 1923 - Transcontinental airmail service begins. 1907 - 1st cabs with taxi meters begin operating in London. 1900 - Hawaii became a US territory. 1879 - Woolworth opens its five-cent store. 1819 - The U.S. acquires Spanish Florida. 1732 - George Washington is born.
23	1991 - Military coup in Thailand, Premier Choonhaven arrested. 1980 - Oil tanker explosion off Pilos, Greece, causes 37-mil-gallon spillr. 1967 - US troops begin largest offensive of Vietnam War. 1954 - Children receive first polio vaccine. 1945 - U.S. flag raised on Iwo Jima. 1936 - 1st rocket air mail flight, Greenwood Lake, NY. 1904 - US acquired control of the Panama Canal Zone for $10 million. 1903 - Cuban state of Guantanamo leased to USA. 1893 - Diesel engine is patented. 1883 - Alabama becomes 1st US state to enact an antitrust law. 1870 - Mississippi is readmitted to US. 1867 - The U.S. House of Representatives voted to impeach President Andrew Johnson 1861 - By popular referendum, Texas becomes 7th state to secede from US. 1822 - Boston is incorporated as a city.
24	2004 - About 500 people are killed after an earthquake strikes towns on Morocco's Mediterranean coast. 1991 - Gulf War ground offensive begins. 1989 - 150-million-year-old fossil egg (oldest dinosaur embryo) found. 1986 - Voyager 2, 1st Uranus flyby. 1968 - Hue city is recaptured from N. Vietnam. 1961 - Explorer (10) fails to reach Earth orbit. 1949 - Israel & Egypt sign an armistice agreement. 1948 - Communist Party seizes complete control of Czechoslovakia. 1945 - Manila freed from Japanese. 1927 - Fox demonstrates Movietone sound. 1924 - Mahatma Gandhi released from jail. 1909 - Hudson Motor incorporated. 1868 - The United States House of Representatives impeached President Andrew Johnson following his attempted dismissal of Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton; Johnson was later acquitted by the Senate. 1863 - Arizona Territory created. 1821 - Mexico gains independence from Spain.
25	1984 - Explosion kills hundreds in Brazil. 1986 - Marcos flees the Philippines. 1979 - Soyuz 32 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station is launched. 1977 - Soyuz 24 returns to Earth. 1948 - Communists take power in Czechoslovakia. 1940 - 1st televised (W2XBS, NYC) hockey game (Rangers vs Canadians). 1928 - FCC issues the first television license. 1919 - Oregon, the first state, imposes a tax on gasoline. 1910 - Dali Lama flees Tibet from Chinese troop to British-Indies. 1870 - Hiram R. Revels, R-Miss., became the first black member of the U.S. Senate as he was sworn in to serve out the unexpired term of Jefferson Davis.
26	1993 - World Trade Center is bombed, killing six people and injuring more than 1,000 others. 1987 - NASA launches GEOS-H. 1984 - Last U.S. Marines leave Beirut. 1983 - Shortwave pirate Radio begins transmission in Wellsville, NY. 1980 - Egypt & Israel exchange ambassadors for 1st time. 1977 - First flight of Space Shuttle on top of a Boeing 747. 1975 - 1st televised kidney transplant. 1968 - Vietnam War: Mass graves discovered in Hue. 1965 - First South Korean troops arrive in Vietnam. 1944 - 1st female US navy captain, Sue Dauser of nurse corps, appointed. 1935 - The Pontiac "Indian Maiden" mascot was patented. 1870 - 1st NYC subway line opens. 1863 - Lincoln signs National Currency Act.
27	2010 - Over 700 people are killed after a magnitude 8.8 earthquake strikes central Chile north-east of the second largest city, Concepcion . 1991 - President Bush declared that Kuwait is liberated from Iraq. 1962 - South-Vietnam pres Ngo Dinh Diem's palace bombed, 1st US killed. 1964 - Leaning Tower of Pisa needs help. 1950 - General Chiang Kai-shek elected president of Nationalist China. 1942 - U.S. aircraft carrier Langley is sunk. 1936 - Shirley Temple receives $50,000 a film. 1813 - 1st federal vaccination legislation enacted.
28	1993 - ATF raids Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas. Four agents and six Davidians were killed as a 51-day standoff began. 1986 - Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme (1927-1986) was assassinated in Stockholm 1953 - Watson & Crick discover chemical structure of DNA. 1935 - Nylon discovered by Dr Wallace H Carothers. 1932 - The last of five million Ford Model A is produced. 1922 - Egypt regains independence from Britain. 1882 - First U.S college cooperative store opens, at Harvard University. 1861 - Congress creates Colorado Territory. 1861 - Territory of Nevada created. 1847 - US defeats Mexico in battle of Sacramento.
29 (for a leap year)	1996 - Soyuz TM-23 lands. 1964 - President Lyndon Baines Johnson reveals US secretly developed the A-11 jet fighter. 1960 - Earthquake devastates Moroccan city, killed 1/3 of Agadir Morocco population (12,000) in 15 seconds. 1956 - Islamic Republic forms in Pakistan. 1908 - Cadillac standardization is tested. 1908 - Dutch scientists produce solid helium.

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