1302 – The characters Romeo and Juliet were married this day according to William Shakespeare.
1789 Benjamin Banneker and Pierre Charles L’Enfant begin to lay out Washington, D.C.
1997 Ashes of Star Trek creator, Gene Roddenberry are launched into space
1997 Beatle McCartney knighted Sir Paul by Queen Elizabeth II
1998 – The International Astronomical Union issued an alert that said that a mile-wide asteroid could come very close to, and possibly hit, Earth on Oct. 26, 2028. The next day NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced that there was no chance the asteroid would hit Earth.
2002 – Two columns of light were pointed skyward from ground zero in New York as a temporary memorial to the victims of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
2006 – Michelle Bachelet is inaugurated as the first female president of Chile.
2013 European Union bans the sale of cosmetics that have been tested on animals
By:Archa Davea
