359 – Honoratus, first known Prefect of the City of Constantinople, takes office.
384 – St Damasus I dies and ends his reign as Catholic Pope.
1719 – 1st recorded display of Aurora Borealis in North American colonies
1844 – Dr. Horace Wells became the first person to have a tooth extracted after receiving an anesthetic for the dental procedure. Nitrous Oxide, or laughing gas, was the anesthetic.
1913 – “Mona Lisa”, stolen from the Louvre Museum in 1911, recovered
1998 – Scientists announced that they had deciphered the entire genetic blueprint of a tiny worm.
2009 – The game Angry Birds were released.
2009 – Tiger Woods announced an indefinite leave from professional golf to focus on his marriage.
2014 – CIA Director John Brennan defends interrogation methods used after 9/11 but admits some methods were “abhorrent”
2014 – World’s 1st penis transplant procedure by a team from Stellenbosch University and Tygerberg Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa
By: Archa Dave
