3761 BC – The epoch of the modern Hebrew calendar (Proleptic Julian calendar).
1806 – Carbon paper patented in London by inventor Ralph Wedgewood
1816 – 1st double decked steamboat, Washington, arrives in New Orleans
1826 – Granite Railway (1st chartered railway in US) begins operations
1868 – Cornell University was inaugurated in Ithaca, NY.
1931 – 1st infra-red photograph, Rochester, NY
1986 – First edition of new British newspaper “Independent” published
2013 – James Rothman, Randy Schekmanand Thomas C. Südhof win the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work on transport systems in cells
2014 – Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura win the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing blue light emitting diodes
By: Archa Dave
