1099 – Christian soldiers on the First Crusade march around Jerusalem.
1497 Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama departs on his first voyage
1579 Our Lady of Kazan, a holy icon of the Russian Orthodox Church, was discovered underground in the city of Kazan, Tatarstan.
1865 – C.E. Barnes patented the machine gun.
1889 – The Wall Street Journal was first published.
1999 “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” the 3rd book of the series by J. K. Rowling is published by Bloomsbury in the UK
2010 “Inception”, directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, premieres in London, UK
By: Archa Dave
