Year : 1613
Events : Galileo may have unknowingly viewed undiscovered planet Neptune
Year : 1807
Events : London's pall Mall is 1st street lit by gaslight
Year : 1819
Events : Sir Stamford Raffles 1st street lit by
Year : 1821
Events : Bellingshausen discovers Alexander Island off Antarctica
Year : 1848
Events : King of Naples grants his subjects a constitution
Year : 1871
Events : Paris surrenders to Prussians
Year : 1878
Events : 1st telephone exchange (New Haven CT)
Year : 1878
Events : George W Coy hired as 1st full-time telephone operator
Year : 1878
Events : Yale Daily News published, 1st college daily newspaper
Year : 1899
Events : American Social Science Association incorporated by Congress
Year : 1909
Events : US military forces leave Cuba for 2nd time
Year : 1914
Events : Beverly Hills, California, is incorporated
Year : 1918
Events : Trotsky becomes leader of Reds
Year : 1932
Events : Japan occupies Shanghai
Year : 1934
Events : 1st US ski tow (rope) begins operations (Wooodstock VT)
Year : 1958
Events : Construction began on 1st private thorium-uranium nuclear reactor
Year : 1960
Events : 1st photograph bounced off Moon, Washington Dc
Year : 1965
Events : The who make their 1st appearance on British TV
Year : 1978
Events : "Fantasy Island" staring Richardo Montalban premieres on ABC TV
Year : 1982
Events : US performs nuclear test at Nevada test site
Year : 1986
Events : 25th Space Shuttle (51L) -challenger 10 explodes 73 seconds after liftoff
Year : 1988
Events : Canada's Supreme Court declares anti-abortion law unconstitutional
Year : 1989
Events : Boon completes 7th Test century,149 vs West Indies at SCG
Year : 1990
Events : "Independent on Sunday" begins publishing in London
Year : 1991
Events : Boon completes 9th Test century, 121 vs England at Adelaide
Year : 1977
Events : M.H.Baig, appointed as Chief Justice of India. [ 28-01-1977 to 21-02-1978]
Year : 1995
Events : Emergency is declared in Ecuador.
Year : 1998
Events : Former Norwegian Prime Minister, Ms.Gro Harlem Brundtland elected as Director-General of The World Health Organisation, the first Woman to lead the agency.
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