1582 – Many Catholic countries switch to Gregorian calendar
1764 – Edward Gibbon observes a group of friars singing in the ruined Temple of Jupiter in Rome, which inspires him to begin work on The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
1842 – Karl Marx becomes editor-in-chief of RheinischeZeitung
1905 – Claude Debussy’s “La Mer” premieres
1914 – ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers) founded
1924 – Pres Calvin Coolidge declares Statue of Liberty a national monument
1932 – Tata Airlines (later Air India) makes its first flight.
1937 – Ernest Hemingway novel “To Have & Have Not” published
1993 – Nelson Mandela & South Africa president F W de Klerk awarded Nobel Peace Prize
2001 – NASA’s Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles of Jupiter’s moon Io.
2012 – Hilary Mantel wins the 2012 – Man Booker Prize for her novel “Bring Up the Bodies”
By: Archa Dave
