1607 – An expedition led by Captain Christopher Newport arrived at Jamestown, Virginia. The passengers went ashore the next day and this site became the first permanent settlement English colony in America.
1648 Construction of the Red Fort at Delhi is completed.
1848 First performance of Finland’s national anthem.
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1861 Queen Victoria announces Britain’s position of neutrality in the American Civil War
1912 – Royal Flying Corps was established in England.
1940 Winston Churchill says I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears & sweat
1952 The Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India, holds its first sitting.
1958 The trade mark Velcro is registered.
1969 Race riots, take place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
1981 Pope John Paul II is shot and critically wounded by Turkish gunman Mehemet Ali Agca in St Peter’s Square, Vatican City
2014 Christopher Columbus’s flagship, the Santa María, is discovered off the northern coast of Haiti
By: Archa Dave
