International Day of Older Persons
959 Edgar the Peaceable (Edgar I) becomes king of all England.
1553 Coronation of Queen Mary I of England.
1811 The first steamboat to sail the Mississippi River (Orleans) arrives in New Orléans, Louisiana.
1843 The News of the World tabloid begins publication in London. Ceases publication 10 July 2011
1847 German inventor and industrialist Werner von Siemens founds Siemens AG & Halske.
1880 First electric lamp factory is opened by Thomas Edison.
1880 John Philip Sousa becomes head of the United States Marine Band.
1881 William Boeing (born), American engineer and businessman, founded the Boeing Company (died 1956)
1890 Yosemite National Park is established by the U.S. Congress.
1891 In the U.S. state of California, Stanford University opens its doors.
1903 Vladimir Horowitz (born), Ukrainian-American pianist (died 1989)
1908 Ford puts the Model T car on the market at a price of US$825.
1910 Bonnie Parker (born), American criminal (died 1934)
1915 Jerome Bruner (born), American cognitive psychologist
1918 World War I: Arab forces under Thomas Edward Lawrence, also known as “Lawrence of Arabia” capture Damascus.
1924 Jimmy Carter (born), American politician, 39th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate
1931 The George Washington Bridge linking New Jersey and New York opens.
1932 Albert Collins (born), American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1993)
1940 The Pennsylvania Turnpike, often considered the first superhighway in the United States, opens to traffic.
1946 Mensa International is founded in the United Kingdom.
1949 The People’s Republic of China is established and declared by Mao Zedong.
1957 First appearance of In God We Trust on U.S. paper currency.
1958 NASA is created to replace NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics).
1962 First broadcast of The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson.
1964 Japanese Shinkansen (“bullet trains”) begin high-speed rail service 200 mph (320 k/hr) from Tokyo to Osaka.
1964 The Free Speech Movement is a student protest launched on the campus of University of California, Berkeley.
1971 The first brain-scan using x-ray computed tomography (CT or CAT scan) is performed at Atkinson Morley Hospital in Wimbledon, London.
1971 Walt Disney World opens near Orlando, Florida, United States.
1972 Louis Leakey died, Kenyan-English archaeologist (born 1903)
1979 The United States returns sovereignty of the Panama canal to Panama.
1982 EPCOT Center opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, United States.
1982 Sony launches the first consumer compact disc player (model CDP-101).
1989 Denmark introduces the world’s first legal modern same-sex civil union called “registered partnership”.
1992 Cartoon Network begins broadcasting.
2004 Richard Avedon (died), American photographer (born 1923)
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