66 – Emperor Nero creates the Legion I Italica.
530 – Boniface II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1499 – Switzerland became an independent state.
1761 – Coronation of George III of the United Kingdom and Queen Charlotte.
1862 – President Lincoln, says he will free slaves in all states on Jan 1
1896 – Queen Victoria surpasses her grand father King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
1949 – The Soviet Union exploded its first atomic bomb successfully.
1955 – Commercial television began in Great Britain. The rules said that only six minutes of ads were allowed each hour and there was no Sunday morning TV permitted.
1966 – The U.S. lunar probe Surveyor 2 crashed into the moon.
1998 – U.S. President Clinton addressed the United Nations and told world leaders to “end all nuclear tests for all time”. He then sent the long-delayed global test-ban treaty to the U.S. Senate.
By: Archa Dave
