1302 – Pope Boniface VIII delegates degree “Unamsanctam”
1493 – Christopher Columbus discovers Puerto Rico, on his 2nd voyage
1863 – US President Lincoln delivers his Gettysburg address beginning; “Four score & seven years ago…”
1872 – E.D. Barbour of Boston is awarded the first U.S. patent for the first ‘calculator’
1887 – Start of Sherlock Holmes “Adventure of Dying Detective
1895 – Frederick E Blaisdell patents the pencil
1896 – Start of Sherlock Holmes “Adventure of Sussex Vampire”
1965 – Kellogg’s Pop Tarts pastries created
1971 – Disney World’s Fort Wilderness opens
1994 – Aishwarya Rai, 21, of India, crowned 44th Miss World
1997 – In Des Moines, Iowa, Bobbi McCaughey gives birth to septuplets in the second known case where all seven babies were born alive.
2003 – Eight competing designs for a memorial to the victims of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center were unveiled. One design would be built at the site of the World Trade Center.
2007 – The Amazon Kindle was first released.
By: Archa Dave
