1494 – The first Mass in the New World is celebrated at La Isabela, Hispaniola.
1838 – Samuel Morse publicly demonstrated the telegraph for the first time.
1893 – The Washington National Cathedral is chartered by Congress. The charter is signed by President Benjamin Harrison.
1912 – Alfred Wegener, geophysicist and meteorologist, presents his controversial theory of continental drift in a lecture at a the Geological Association (GeologischenVereinigung) at the Senckenberg-Museum, Frankfurt.
1929 – Mother Teresa arrives in Calcutta to begin her work amongst India’s poorest and diseased people.
1939 – Daily newspaper comic strip “Superman” debuts
1952 – “Peanuts” debuted in Sunday papers across the United States.
2004 – In the United Arab Emirates, construction began on the BurjKhalifa skyscraper.
By: Archa Dave
