| 1986 - | The first issue of the 'Today' newspaper was published |
|
| 1980 - | Robert Mugabe formed Zimbabwe's first black government |
|
| 1974 - | A Labour government took over when Edward Heath resigned |
|
| 1967 - | The first North Sea gas was pumped ashore in Britain |
|
| 1959 - | Pioneer 4 became the first American spacecraft to flyby the Moon |
|
| 1928 - | Patrick Moore, English astronomer, was born. |
|
| 1911 - | Victor Berger (Wisc) becomes 1st socialist congressman in US |
|
| 1909 - | President Taft inaugrated at 27th president during 10 snowstorm |
|
| 1909 - | US prohibits interstate transportation of game birds |
|
| 1908 - | Collingwood Ohio primary school catches fire; 180 die |
|
| 1905 - | Gerhart Hauptmanns Elga, premieres in Berlin |
|
| 1902 - | American Automobile Association (AAA) founded in Chicago |
|
| 1901 - | 1st advanced copy of inaugural speech (Jefferson-Natl Intelligencer) |
|
| 1901 - | President William McKinley inaugurated for 2nd term as president |
|
| 1901 - | Term of George H White, last of post-Reconstruction congressmen, ends |
|
| 1890 - | The Forth railway bridge, Scotland was officially opened. |
|
| 1882 - | Britain`s first electric streetcars came into operation in Leytonstone, East London, UK. |
|
| 1882 - | Britain's first electric trams ran in East London |
|
| 1861 - | Abraham Lincoln became the 16th President of the United States |
|
| 1832 - | Jean-François Champollion, French Egyptologist, died. |
|
| 1824 - | The Royal National Lifeboat Institution was formed |
|
| 1789 - | The first Congress of the United States was held in New York |
|
