Year : 1815
Events : Napoleon & 1,200 leave Elba to start 100-day re-conquest of France
Year : 1863
Events : Lincoln signs National Currency Act
Year : 1870
Events : 1st NYC sunway line opens (pneumatic powered)
Year : 1930
Events : 1st red & green trafic lights installed (Manhattan New York City)
Year : 1930
Events : West Indies make 1st Test Cricket win, by 289 runs over England
Year : 1938
Events : 1st passenger ship equipped with radar
Year : 1944
Events : 1st female US navy captain, Sue Dauser of nurse corps, appointed
Year : 1952
Events : PM Winston Churchill announces tha Britain has its own atomic bomb
Year : 1967
Events : USSR performs nuclear test at eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
Year : 1975
Events : 1st televised Kidney transplant (Today Show)
Year : 1976
Events : US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test site
Year : 1977
Events : 1st flight of Space Shuttle (Atop a Boeing 747)
Year : 1987
Events : NASA launches GEOS-H
Year : 1987
Events : USSR resumes nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
Year : 1993
Events : 2nd tallest building in World, NYC World Trade Center bombed, 7 die
Year : 1993
Events : Allan Border beats Gavaskar's record for most Test Cricket runs
Year : 1999
Events : A national panel of veteran American journalists rates the bombing of Hiroshima in 1945 as the most significant news event of the century.
Year : 1995
Events : Free German Workers party is banned.
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