1456 A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death
1550 Traditional date Chocolate thought to have been introduced to Europe
1668 Isaac Newton receives MA from Trinity College, Cambridge
1754 – Kings College opened in New York City. It was renamed Columbia College 30 years later.
1885 – G. Moore Peters patented the cartridge-loading machine.
1920 – A device known as the radio compass was used for the first time on a U.S. Navy airplane near Norfolk, VA.
1928 Sliced bread sold for the first time by the Chillicothe Baking Company, Missouri.
1994 – Amazon.com, Inc. was founded in Seattle, Washington under the name “Cadabra.”
2000 – Amazon.com announced that they had sold almost 400,000 copies of “Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire,” making it the biggest selling book in e-tailing history.
2007 Pope Benedict XVI issues the Apostolic Letter Summorum Pontificum, removing restrictions on celebrating the old Tridentine Mass.
2011 “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2”, the last Harry Potter film, premieres in London
By: Archa Dave
