1492 – Christopher Columbus, an Italian explorer, sighted Watling Island in the Bahamas.
1609 – Children’s rhyme “Three Blind Mice” published in London
1773 – America’s first insane asylum opens for ‘Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds’ in Virginia
1775 – US Navy forms
1792 – The first monument honoring Christopher Columbus was dedicated in Baltimore, MD.
1810 – Bavarian Crown Prince Ludwig married Princess Therese of Saxony-Hildburghausen. The royalty invited the public to attend the event which became an annual celebration that later became known as Oktoberfest.
1886 – Start of Sherlock Holmes “Adventure of 2nd Stain”
1901 – Theodore Roosevelt renames “Executive Mansion,” “The White House”
1915 – Ford Motor Company under Henry Ford manufactures its 1 millionth Model T automobile
1964 – The Soviet Union launched Voskhod 1 into orbit around the Earth. It was the first space flight to have a multi-person crew and the first flight to be performed without space suits.
By: Archa Dave
