Posts published in “Today in History”

1785 – First manned balloon flight in Ireland 1808 – Louis Napoleon signs 1st Dutch aviation law 1883 – The first electric lighting system employing…

1644 – Perplexed Pilgrims in Boston reported America’s 1st UFO sighting 1778 – Capt James Cook stumbles over Sandwich Islands (Hawaiian Islands) 1896 – The…

1773 – Capt James Cook becomes 1st to cross Antarctic Circle 1946 – United Nations Security Council holds its 1st meeting 1962 – NASA civilian…

1493 – Columbus leaves the new world and sets sail for Spain on his 1st trip 1547 – Ivan the Terrible was crowned Czar of…

India celebrates its Army Day every year 1559 – Elizabeth I crowned Queen of England in Westminster Abbey 1943 – 1st transport of Jews from…

1784 – The United States ratified a peace treaty with England ending the Revolutionary War. 1873 – John Hyatt’s 1869 invention ‘Celluloid’ was registered as…

1559 – Elizabeth I crowned Queen of England in Westminster Abbey 1610 – Galileo Galilei discovers Callisto, 4th satellite of Jupiter 1842 – Dr. William…

1773 – The first public museum in America was established in Charleston, SC. 1807 – Gunpowder-ship explodes in Leiden, Netherlands, 150 die 1812 – 1st…

1849 – Elizabeth Blackwell becomes 1st woman in US to earn medical degree 1879 – Zulu war against British colonial rule in South Africa begins…

1839 – Tea from India 1st arrives in UK 1863 – 1st underground railway opens in London 1878 – US Senate proposes female suffrage 1910…

1431 – Judges’ investigations for the trial of Joan of Arc begin in Rouen, France, the seat of the English occupation government. 1718 – France…

1642 – Astronomer Galileo Galilei died in Arcetri, Italy 1656 – Oldest surviving commercial newspaper begins (Haarlem, Netherlands) 1790 – 1st US President George Washington…

1601 – Robert, Earl of Essex, leads revolt in London against Queen Elizabeth 1714 – Typewriter patented by Englishman Henry Mill (built years later) 1761…

1898 – 1st telephone message from a submerged submarine, by Simon Lake 1930 – 1st diesel engine automobile trip (in a Packard sedan) completed 1931…

1066 – Edward the Confessor dies childless, sparking a succession crisis that will eventually lead to the Norman conquest of England. 1477 – Battle of…

1642 – King Charles I with 400 soldiers attacks the English parliament 1698 – Most of the Palace of Whitehall in London, the main residence…

1496 – Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine. 1521 – Martin Luther excommunicated by Pope Leo X from the Roman Catholic Church 1653…

1757 – British troops occupy Calcutta India 1839 – 1st photo of the Moon (French photographer Louis Daguerre) 1905 – Elara, a satellite of Jupiter,…

1AD – Origin of Christian Era 1583 – 1st day of the Gregorian calendar in Holland & Flanders 1610 – German astronomer Simon Marius 1st…

535 – Byzantine general Belisarius completes the conquest of Sicily, defeating the Gothic garrison of Palermo (Panormos), and ending his consulship for the year. 1225…