951 – Otto I the Great becomes king of Italy
1459 – Battle of Blore Heath in Staffordshire, 1st major battle of the English Wars of the Roses
1879 – Richard Rhodes invented a hearing aid called the Audi phone
1884 – American Herman Hollerith patents his mechanical tabulating machine.
1907 – Proclamation sets fineness & weight of silver & bronze coins of Canada
1908 – University of Alberta opens
1911 – EarleOvington becomes 1st air mail pilot
1913 – Roland Garros is 1st to fly over the Mediterranean Sea
1932 – Kingdom of Hejaz & Nejd merge into Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
1938 – Time capsule, to be opened in 6939, buried at World’s Fair in NYC (capsule contained a woman’s hat, man’s pipe & 1,100′ of microfilm)
1942 – The ‘Manhattan Project’ commences, under the direction of US General Leslie Groves: its aim – to deliver an atomic bomb.
1952 – 1st closed circuit pay-TV telecast of a sports event
1961 – 1st movie to become a TV series-How to Marry a Millionaire
1962 – ABC’s 1st color TV series – The Jetsons
1971 – John Vermeer’s painting “The Liefdesbrief” stolen
1986 – Congress selects the rose as US national flower
1993 – Paul Chu group reports super conduction at -123°C
2009 – “Modern Family” premieres on ABC, starring Ed ‘Neill and Sofia Vergara
2012 – Iran blocks the use of Google as a search engine
2012 – Scientists discover four genetically distinct types of breast cancer
2012 – 64th Emmy Awards: “Homeland”, “Modern Family”, Damian Lewis & Claire Danes win
By: Archa Dave
