1715 Edmund Halley observes total eclipse phenomenon “Baily’s Beads”
1802 – Washington, DC, was incorporated as a city.
1915 John McCrae writes the poem “In Flanders Fields”
1944 – Dr. Robert Woodward and Dr. William Doering produced the first synthetic quinine at Harvard University.
1978 First unsolicited bulk commercial e-mail (“spam”) is sent by a Digital Equipment Corporation marketing representative to every ARPANET address on the US west coast
1999 – Hasbro released the first collection of toys for the Star Wars movie “Episode I: The Phantom Menace.”
2013 Aorun zhaoi, a Theropod dinosaur, dating from 161 million years ago, is discovered in China
By: Archa Dave
