325 – Council of Nicaea ends with adoption of the Nicene Creed establishing the doctrine of the Holy Trinity
1212 – Children’s crusade under Nicolas (10) reaches Genoa
1248 – The Dutch city of Ommen receives city rights and fortification rights from Otto III, the Archbishop of Utrecht.
1425 – Countess Jacoba of Bavaria escapes from jail
1540 – Explorer Hernando de Alarcon travels up Colorado River
1566 – Iconoclastic fury begins in Dutch province Utrecht
1609 – Galileo demonstrates his 1st telescope to Venetian lawmakers
1768 – Captain James Cook departs from Plymouth, England on his first voyage, on board the Endeavour, bound for the Pacific Ocean
1835 – New York Sun publishes Moon hoax story about John Herschel
1840 – A seeding machine was patented by Joseph Gibbons
1875 – Matthew Webb becomes 1st to swim English Channel (21h 45m)
1900 – Birth of German-British biochemist, Sir Hans Adolf Krebs, the biochemist who discovered TCA Cycle
1908 – National Association of Colored Nurses forms
1912 – 1st time an aircraft recovers from a spin
1916 – US Department of Interior forms National Park Service
1919 – 1st scheduled passenger service by airplane (Paris-London)
1920 – 1st US woman to win in Olympics (EtheldaBleibtrey)
1932 – Amelia Earhart completes transcontinental flight
1939 – The movie “Wizard of Oz” opened around the United States
1943 – Lord Louis Mountbatten appointed Supreme Allied Commander in SE Asia
1944 – Paris liberated from Nazi occupation (Freedom Tuesday)
1952 – Puerto Rico becomes a US commonwealth
1958 – Momofuku Ando markets the first package of precooked instant noodles (Chikin Ramen)
1972 – In Great Britain, computerized axial tomography (CAT scan) was introduced.
1981 – Voyager 2’s closest approach to Saturn (63,000 miles/100,000 km)
1988 – Iran & Iraq begin talks to end their 8 year war
1988 – NASA launches space vehicle S-214
1989 – After 12-year, 4-billion-mile journey, Voyager 2 flies over cloudtops of Neptune & its moon Triton, sending back photographs of swamps
2012 – Voyager 1 spacecraft, enters interstellar space (launched in 1977), – first spacecraft to do so
2014 – 66th Primetime Emmy Awards hosted by Seth Meyers broadcast on NBC
By: Archa Dave
