Year : 1673
Events : Postal service between New York & Boston inaugurated
Year : 1689
Events : Lord Halifax becomes Speaker of English House of Lords
Year : 1760
Events : Battle at Wandewash India British troops beat French
Year : 1831
Events : Charles Darwin takes his Bachelor of Arts exam
Year : 1879
Events : James Shields (D) elected US senator from Missouri after previously serving as US senator from Illinois & Minnesota
Year : 1881
Events : Ancient Egyptian obelisk "Cleopatra's Needle" erected in Central Park
Year : 1883
Events : England complete 1st innings victory in Tests vs Australia MCG
Year : 1901
Events : After 63 years England stops sale of Queen Victoria postage stamps series & begins King Edward VII series
Year : 1924
Events : KGO-AM in San Francisco CA begins radio transmissions
Year : 1939
Events : Uranium atom 1st split, Columbia University
Year : 1942
Events : Japanese air raid on Rabaul, New Britain
Year : 1945
Events : Burma highway reopens
Year : 1946
Events : US President sets up, CIA, Central Intelligence Agency
Year : 1956
Events : Canadian Football Council forms
Year : 1968
Events : Apollo 5 launched to Moon; unmanned lunar module tests made
Year : 1970
Events : 1st commercial Boeing 747 flight (Pan Am), New York to London in 6½ hours
Year : 1975
Events : Landsat 2, an Earth Resources Technology Satellite, launched
Year : 1980
Events : West Indies beat England 2-0 to win 1st World Series Cup
Year : 1982
Events : 75% of North America is covered by snow
Year : 1989
Events : USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakstan/Semipalatinsk USSR
Year : 1990
Events : Wasim Akram scores Test century (123) at Adelaide
Year : 1992
Events : Space Shuttle STS-42 (Discovery 15) launches into space
Year : 1992
Events : Princess Sarah Ferguson wears paper bag over her head on airline ride
Year : 1994
Events : 5.5 earthquake strikes Sumatra
Year : 1997
Events : Space Shuttle Atlantis Returns to Earth, Successful
Year : 1990
Events : FIR registered in Bofors kickbacks case.
Year : 1992
Events : Bharat Ratna for Netaji Subbash Chandra Bose and Maulana Abul Kalam Azad.
Year : 1989
Events : DMK sweeps to power in Tamil Nadu.
Year : 1971
Events : S.M.Sikri , appointed as Chief Justice of India. [ 22-01-1971 to 25-04-1973]
Year : 1965
Events : Plutonium Plant inaugurated.
Year : 1967
Events : Atomic Energy Establishment is renamed as Bhabha Atomic Research Centre.
Year : 1993
Events : Reserve Bank of India announced guidelines for the setting up of new private sector banks in the country.
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