1558 – Elizabeth I ascended the English throne upon the death of Queen Mary Tudor.
1855 – David Livingstone becomes the first European to see Victoria Falls in what is now Zambia and Zimbabwe.
1869 – The Suez Canal opened in Egypt, linking the Mediterranean and the Red seas.
1996 – Time White and T. Assebework discover the first fossils of 2.5 million year old Australopithecus garhi, an ancestor on the human family tree
2006 – Official naming of element 111, Roentgenium (Rg).
2010 – Reasearchers trapped 38 antihydrogen atoms. It was the first time humans had trapped antimatter.
By: Archa Dave
