1497 – Portuguese navigator Vasco DA Gama is 1st European to sail along Africa’s East Coast, names it Natal
1653 – Oliver Cromwell became lord protector of England, Scotland and Ireland.
1773 – Nearly 350 chests of tea were dumped into Boston Harbor off of British ships by Colonial patriots. The patriots were disguised as Indians. The act was to protest taxation without representation and the monopoly the government granted to the East India Company.
1877 – Anton Bruckner’s 3rd Symphony in D, premieres
1901 – “The Tale of Peter Rabbit,” by Beatrix Potter, was printed for the first time.
1970 – 1st successful landing on Venus
2012 – A gang rape of a woman on a bus in India that resulted in her death leads to national and international outrage
By: Archa Dave
