1792 – 1st cremation in US, Henry Laurens 1914 – Battle of the Falkland Island: British Royal Navy destroys a German battle squadron 1923 –…
1792 – 1st cremation in US, Henry Laurens 1914 – Battle of the Falkland Island: British Royal Navy destroys a German battle squadron 1923 –…
1741 – Elisabeth Petrovna becomes tsarina of Russia 1835 – Bavarian Ludwig railway opens – first German steam railway 1877 – Thomas Edison demonstrates his…
1631 – 1st predicted transit of Venus (Kepler) is observed 1768 – 1st edition of “Encyclopedia Brittanica” published (Scotland)\ 1825 – Pres John Adams suggests…
1360 – The French Franc is created 1840 – Napoleon Bonaparte receives a French state funeral in Paris 19 years after his death 1893 –…
1789 – U.S. President Washington set aside this day to observe the adoption of the Constitution of the United States. 1867 – J.B. Sutherland patented…
1783 – Britain evacuates New York city, its last military position in United States 1867 – Alfred Nobel patents dynamite 1943 – U-600 sinks in…
1859 – Charles Darwin publishes “On the Origin of Species” 1924 – General Feng Yu-Hsiang, a warlord from the north of China, turns on his…
1644 – Areopagitica, a pamphlet by John Milton, decrying censorship, is published. 1890 – King William III of the Netherlands dies (b. 1817) without a…