1776 – Abigail Adams wrote to her husband John that women were “determined to foment a rebellion” if the new Declaration of Independence failed to guarantee their rights.
1841 1st performance of Robert Schumann’s 1st Symphony in B
1885 – Binney & Smith Company was founded in New York City. The company later became Crayola, LLC.
1889 300m high Eiffel Tower officially opens in Paris – built for the Exposition Universelle.
1918 1st daylight savings time in US goes into effect
1939 “The Hound of Baskervilles”, starring Basil Rath bone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson for the first time, is released
1940 – La Guardia airport in New York officially opened to the public
1953 US Department of Health, Education & Welfare established
1959 – The Dalai Lama (Lhama Dhondrub, Tenzin Gyatso) began exile by crossing the border into India where he was granted political asylum.
1987 – HBO (Home Box Office) earned its first Oscar for “Down and Out in America”.
1994 Human evolution: The journal Nature reports the finding in Ethiopia of the first complete Australopithecus a farensis skull.
2004 – Google Inc. announced that it would be introducing a free e-mail service called Gmail.
By: Archa Dave
