1642 – Astronomer Galileo Galilei died in Arcetri, Italy
1656 – Oldest surviving commercial newspaper begins (Haarlem, Netherlands)
1790 – 1st US President George Washington delivers 1st state of the union address
1925 – 1st all-female US state supreme court appointed, Texas
1959 – Charles de Gaulle inaugurated as president of France’s 5th Republic
1963 – “Mona Lisa”, on loan, unveiled in America’s National Gallery of Art
1998 – Scientists announced that they had discovered that galaxies were accelerating and moving apart and at faster speeds
2009 – In Egypt, archeologists entered a 4,300 year old pyramid and discovered the mummy of Queen Sesheshet
