Year : 1594
Events : Company of Distant established for business on East-Indies
Year : 1755
Events : 1st steam engine in America installed, to pump water from a mine
Year : 1789
Events : US Post Office established
Year : 1904
Events : 1st main line electric train in UK (Liverpool to Southport)
Year : 1912
Events : Captain Albert Berry performs 1st parachute jump from an airplane
Year : 1930
Events : Mohandas Gandhi begins 200 meter (300 km) march protesting British salt tax
Year : 1951
Events : Communist troops driven out of seoul
Year : 1958
Events : British Empire Day is renamed "CommonWealth Day"
Year : 1966
Events : US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Year : 1970
Events : US lowers voting age from 21 to 18
Year : 1987
Events : USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
Year : 1993
Events : 317 killed by a serious bomb attacks in Bombay.
Year : 1995
Events : Congress party loses India national election
Year : 1999
Events : Former Warsaw Pact countries, Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. (NATO)
Year : 1969
Events : Reactor Research Centre is started at Kalpakkam, Madras.
Year : 1990
Events : Lithuania declares independance from Soviet Union.
Year : 1992
Events : Mouritius becomes republic.
Year : 1997
Events : Lokendra Bahadur Chand sworn in as Nepals Prime Minister.
Year : 1998
Events : India and Pakistan team up for the second time against the West opposing a US proposal to include yarn and fabric forward policy in WTO rules governing the textile trade.
Year : 1993
Events : Gen. K.V.Krishna Rao, sworn in as the Governor of Jammu & Kashmir.
Year : 1889
Events : South Africa becomes third Cricket Test playing Nation.
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