Famous Historical Events:
966 - Christianization of Poland. The next significant step in Poland's adoption of Christianity was the establishment of various ecclesiastical organs in the country during the 10th and 11th centuries. This included the building of cathedrals and the appointment of clergy. This date should not be confused as the independence day of Poland.
1611 - Word "telescope" is 1st used (Prince Federico Cesi)
1777 - NY adopts new constitution as an independent state. The Constitution articles legitimized the Congress in its supervision of the American Revolution, its diplomacy with Europe, and its handling of territorial issues. Nationalists complained that it was too weak, and it was replaced by the current Constitution in 1789.
1792 - France declares war on Austria, starting French Revolutionary Wars
1818 - US Medical Corp forms
1828 - 1st edition of Noah Webster's dictionary published
1865 - President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater. Lincoln was the first American president to be assassinated, though an unsuccessful attempt had been made on Andrew Jackson in 1835.
1865 - US Secret Service created to fight counterfeiting
1871 - Canada sets denominations of currency as dollars, cents, & mills
1890 - Pan American Day-1st conference of American states (Wash DC)
1894 - 1st public showing of Edison's kinetoscope (moving pictures). Though not a movie projector—it was designed for films to be viewed individually through the window of a cabinet housing its components—the Kinetoscope introduced the basic approach that would become the standard for all cinematic projection before the advent of video: it creates the illusion of movement by conveying a strip of perforated film bearing sequential images over a light source with a high-speed shutter.
1900 - President Loubet opens International Fairs in Paris
1902 - Marie & Pierre Curie isolated the radioactive element radium. Both of them shared the Nobel prizes for Physics. They were the pioneer in the field of radioactivity.
1903 - Dr Harry Plotz discovers vaccine against typhoid (NYC)
1920 - Tornadoes killed 219 people in Alabama & Mississippi
1927 - The first Volvo car premieres in Gothenburg, Sweden.
1931 - Spain becomes republic with overthrow of King Alfonso XIII
1941 - 1st massive German raid in Paris, 3,600 Jews rounded up
1944 - Freighter "Fort Stikene" explodes in Bombay India, killing 1,376
1948 - A flash of light is observed in crater Plato on Moon
1956 - Ampex Corp demonstrates 1st commercial videotape recorder
1958 - Sputnik 2 (with dog Laika) burns up in atmosphere
1969 - Tornado strikes Dacca East Pakistan killing 540
1987 - Turkey asks to join European market
1988 - USSR, US, Pakistan & Afghanistan sign Afghanistan treaty
1989 - 1,100,000,000th Chinese born
1992 - Court throws out Apple's lawsuit against Microsoft
2007 - At least 200,000 demonstrators in Ankara, Turkey protest against the possible candidacy of incumbent Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
