Year : 1409
Events : Council of Pisa opens
Year : 1634
Events : Lord Baltimore founded Catholic colony of Maryland
Year : 1655
Events : Christian Huygens discovers Titan, (Saturn's largest satellite)
Year : 1668
Events : 1st horse race in America takes place
Year : 1807
Events : 1st railway passenger service began in England
Year : 1814
Events : Netherlands Bank established
Year : 1821
Events : Greece gains independence from Turkey (National Day)
Year : 1889
Events : 1st Test Cricket match played at Newlands, Capef Town
Year : 1896
Events : Modern Olympics begin in Athens Greece
Year : 1915
Events : 1st submarine disaster; a US F-4 sank off Hawaii, Killing 21
Year : 1916
Events : Women are allowed to attend a boxing match
Year : 1920
Events : Greek Independence Day
Year : 1937
Events : Washington Daily News is 1st US newspaper with perfumed advertising page
Year : 1947
Events : Last day of Test cricket for Walter Hammond (v New Zealand, Christchurch)
Year : 1954
Events : RCA manufactures 1st color TV set (12+" screen at $1,000)
Year : 1958
Events : West German parliament desires German atomic weapons
Year : 1960
Events : 1st guided missile launched from nuclear powered sub (Halibut)
Year : 1961
Events : Explorer 10 launched into elongated Earth orbit (177/181,000 km)
Year : 1961
Events : Sputnik 10 carries a dog into Earth orbit; later recovered
Year : 1967
Events : USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
Year : 1968
Events : US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Year : 1970
Events : Concorde makes its 1st supersonic flight (700 MPH/1, 127 KPH)
Year : 1988
Events : NASA launches space Vehicle S-206
Year : 1990
Events : 10th Golden Raspherry Awards: Star Trek v wins
Year : 1991
Events : Allan Border takes 5-68 vs West Indies at Bourda (!), Georgetown
Year : 1991
Events : Census report 1991 - India has 844 million people
Year : 1990
Events : Last Batch of IPKF returns home
Year : 1999
Events : AIDS Vaccine trial launched in Thailand.
Year : 1992
Events : Pakistan won Cricket's fifth World Cup defeating England in the Final in Melbourne.
Year : 1997
Events : Jagdish Sharan Varma, appointed as Chief Justice of India. [ 25-03-1997 to 17-01-1998]
Year : 1996
Events : The U.S., Britan and France sign a treaty declaring the South Pacific a nuclear-free zone.
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