2 – Venus and Jupiter in conjunction – possible astrological explanation for Star of Bethlehem
573 – Gregory of Tours selected bishop of Tours
1597 – 1st Dutch East India Company ships return from the Far East
1619 – 1st known African Americans (appox. 20) land at Jamestown, Virginia aboard the Dutch vessel then sold or traded into servitude for supplies
1745 – Bonnie Prince Charlie reaches Blair Castle, Scotland
1781 – George Washington begins to move his troops south to fight Cornwallis
1895 – Start of Sherlock Holmes “Adventure of Norwood Builder” (BG)
1896 – Dial telephone patented
1912 – Plant Quarantine Act goes into effect
1913 – 1st pilot to parachute from an aircraft (AdolphePégoud, France)
1913 – PiotrNesterow 1st flight (Kiev Ukraine)
1940 – British PM Churchill says of Royal Air Force, “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few”
1975 – Viking 1 launched to orbit around Mars, soft landing
1977 – NASA launches Voyager 2 towards Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus & Neptune
1980 – Reinhold Messner of Italy is 1st to solo ascent Mt Everest
1985 – The original Xerox 914 copier was presented to the Smithsonian Institute’s Museum of American History. Chester Carlson was the man who invented the machine.
1993 – Mother Teresa hospitalized with malaria
2010 – The last American combat brigade exited Iraq after more than seven years after the U.S.-led invasion began.
By: Archa Dave
