1497 – Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama rounds Cape of Good Hope on way to first voyage from Europe to reach India
1718 – English pirate Edward Teach (a.k.a. “Blackbeard”) was killed during a battle off the coast of North Carolina. British soldiers cornered him aboard his ship and killed him. He was shot and stabbed more than 25 times.
1910 – Arthur Knight patents steel shaft golf clubs
1927 – 1st snowmobile patent granted to Carl Eliason (SaynerWisc)
1963 – American President John F. Kennedy assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas
2005 – Microsoft’s XBOX 360 went on sale
2008 – YouTube hosts the largest ever live broadcast, YouTube Live.
2013 – The discovery of Siatsmeekerorum was announced. The dinosaur skeleton, more than 30 feet long, was found in eastern Utah
By: Archa Dave
