1552 Guru Amar Das becomes the Third Sikh Guru.
1636 University of Utrecht opening ceremony
1668 England takes control of Bombay, India
1824 1st performance of Beethoven’s “Missa Solemnis”
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1830 The Book of Mormon is published in Palmyra, New York.
1839 1st Henley Royal Regatta
1872 Thomas J Martin patents fire extinguisher
1926 The 1st lip-reading tournament held in America
1931 New Delhi replaces Calcutta as capital of British-Indies
1937 – Spinach growers in Crystal City, TX, erected a statue of Popeye
1945 Iwo Jima occupied, after 18,000 Japanese & 6,000 Americans killed
1953 Dr Jonas Salk announces vaccine to prevent polio
1975 The Biological Weapons Convention enters into force.
1976 Queen Elizabeth II sent out the first royal email, from the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment.
1985 Pope John Paul II proclaims first ever World Youth Day
2012 Canadian filmmaker James Cameron becomes the first person to visit 
2015 Richard III of England (1452-1485) is reburied at Leicester Cathedral in England, after being discovered under a carpark in Leicester in 2012
By: Archa Dave
