1492 – The crew of the Pinta, one of Christopher Columbus’ ships, mistakenly thought that they had spotted land.
1493 – Columbus sails with 17 ships on 2nd voyage to the Americas
1513 – Vasco Nunez de Balboa is first European to see Pacific Ocean
1820 – French Physicist Francois Arago announces electromagnetism in his discovery that a copper wire between the poles of a voltaic cell could laterally attract iron filings to itself
1888 – Royal Court Theatre, London, opens
1888 – Start of Sherlock Holmes “Hound of Baskervilles”
1890 – The Sequoia National Park was established as a U.S. National Park in Central California.
1890 – Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure “Silver Blaze” (BG)
1897 – 1st British bus service opens
1906 – In the presence of the king and before a great crowd, Leonardo Torres Quevedo successfully demonstrates the invention of the Telekino in the port of Bilbao, guiding a boat from the shore, in what is considered the birth of the Remote control.
1956 – A transatlantic telephone-cable system began operation between Newfoundland and Scotland.
1957 – 300 U.S. Army troops stood guard as nine black students were escorted to class at Central High School in Little Rock, AR.
The children had been forced to withdraw 2 days earlier because of unruly white mobs.
1992 – The Mars Observer blasted off on a mission that cost $980 million.
2005 – E1 Train Disaster
By: Archa Dave
