Year : 1757
Events : British troops occupy Calcutta, India
Year : 1839
Events : 1st photo of the Moon (French photographer Louis Daguerre)
Year : 1893
Events : 1st US commemoratives & 1st US stamp to picture a Woman issued
Year : 1905
Events : Japanese troops capture Port Arthur.
Year : 1913
Events : National Woman's Party forms.
Year : 1919
Events : Lithuania gains independence.
Year : 1936
Events : Bradman scores 357 for South Africa vs Victoria, his 4th consecutive century
Year : 1942
Events : Japanese troops occupy Manila Philippines
Year : 1947
Events : Mahatma Gandhi begins march for peace in East-Bengal
Year : 1964
Events : Ayub Khan elected President of Pakistan
Year : 1974
Events : Worst fire in Argentine history destroys 1.2 million acres
Year : 1988
Events : Ashland Oil storage tank spills 3.8 million gallons, Pennsylvania
Year : 1995
Events : Most distant galaxy yet discovered found by scientists using Keck telescope in hawaii (estimated 15 billion light years away)
Year : 1990
Events : Capt.Nivedita Bhasin, 26, becomes the youngest woman pilot in world civil aviation history to command a jet air craft.
Year : 1993
Events : Allahabad court allows 'dshan' at Ayodhya.
Year : 1720
Events : Sweden and Prussia sign peace treaty.
Year : 178
Events : First Steamboat patent issued, by Georgia to Briggs and Longstreet.
Year : 1793
Events : France declares war on England and Netherlands.
Year : 1809
Events : Dutch King Louis Napoleon accepts metric system
Year : 1810
Events : 1st insurance company managed by blacks (American Insurance Company of Philadelphia)
Year : 1867
Events : Brickslayers start working 8-hour days.
Year : 1884
Events : 1st volume of the Oxford English Dictionary, A-Ant, published
Year : 1893
Events : Thomas Edison completes worlds 1st movie studio (West Orange NJ).
Year : 1924
Events : New British MacDonald government recognizes USSR
Year : 1937
Events : Stapleton, Staten Island becomes a customs-free port.
Year : 1945
Events : US Army arrives at Siefriedlinie.
Year : 1951
Events : 1st telecast of atomic explosion.
Year : 1951
Events : 1st X-ray moving picture process demonstrated
Year : 1951
Events : US performs nuclear test at Navada Test Site
Year : 1958
Events : 1st US satellite (Explorer I) launched
Year : 1959
Events : Texas Instruments requests patent of IC (Integrated Circuit)
Year : 1968
Events : Former Vice-President Richard Nixon announces candidacy for president
Year : 1972
Events : 1st scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) introduced ($395)
Year : 1978
Events : Harriet Tubman is 1st black woman honored on a US postage stamp
Year : 1979
Events : USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
Year : 1983
Events : USSR performs underground nuclear test
Year : 1984
Events : Ravindara Mhatrem, Indian diplomat, kidnapped in England (killed 0203)
Year : 1985
Events : Azharuddin scores 3rd Test century in 3rd Test Cricket (122 vs England)
Year : 1994
Events : Irina Privalova runs world record 50 meter indoor (6.03 seconds)
Year : 1999
Events : India makes first cryogenic tunnel-on-wheels.
Year : 1997
Events : Indonesia becomes the 4th most populated country after China, India and USA.
Year : 1993
Events : Prof. Burhanuddin Rabbani, is sworn in as Afghan President.
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