1334 BC – The Macedonian army of Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of the Granicus 760 – 14th recorded perihelion passage of Halley’s Comet 1570 – First atlas ‘Theatrum Orbis Terrarum’ (Theatre of the World), published by Abraham Ortelius in Antwerp with 70 maps 1803 – First free public...
On May 22, 1906, the Wright brothers were granted a patent for their flying machine, an aeroplane. Three years earlier, after extensive experimentation, they were successful in flying an aerplane they built. Their powered aircraft flew for 12 seconds above the sand dunes of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, making them the first men to pilot a heavier-than-air machine that took off on its own power, remained under control, and sustained flight.
1051 – Henry I of France is married to Anne of Kiev. 1499 – Catherine of Aragon is married by proxy to Arthur, Prince of Wales. Catherine is 13 and Arthur is 12. 1535 – French explorer Jacques Cartier sets sail on his second voyage to North America with three ships, 110 men, and Chief...
332 – Constantine the Great announced free distributions of food to the citizens in Constantinople. 1593 – Playwright Thomas Kyd’s accusations of heresy lead to an arrest warrant for Christopher Marlowe. 1652 – Rhode Island passes the first law in English-speaking North America making slavery illegal. 1860 – Abraham Lincoln wins the Republican Party presidential...
Mathew Brady, "USS Sangamon", ca.1864-1865, salt print
1536 – Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn’s marriage is annulled. 1792 – The New York Stock Exchange is formed under the Buttonwood Agreement. 1865 – The International Telegraph Union (later the International Telecommunication Union) is established in Paris. 1954 – The US Supreme Court hands down a unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education...
Watergate began with a burglary in June 1972 and ended with a president's resignation in August 1974. In between, during the summer of 1973, a special Senate Committee held hearings, co-chaired by Sens. Sam Ervin (D-N.C.) and Howard Baker (R-Tenn.), to investigate the Watergate scandal.
1527 – Florence becomes a republic 1792 – Denmark abolishes slave trade 1817 – Mississippi River steamboat service begins 1861 – Kentucky proclaims its neutrality 1862 – Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir a Belgian engineer developed the internal combustion engine in 1858. Prior designs for such engines were patented as early as 1807, but none were...
An image of Tibet-Kashmir, looking northwest, as photographed L. Gordon Cooper Jr. Lake Ch'in-Tzu-Hu is visible in the upper right, Lake Yen-K'o-Ling-Ts in the lower left centre, and The Korakaram Range in the upper centre portion of the image.
1004 – Henry II the Saint crowned King of Italy 1252 – Pope Innocent IV issues the papal bull ad exstirpanda, which authorizes, but also limits, the torture of heretics in the Medieval Inquisition. It authorized in limited and defined circumstances the use of torture by the Inquisition for eliciting confessions from heretics. 1602 –...
