Today in history
1915 - Booker T. Washington died
1851 - Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick was published
1888 - Nellie Bly set out to beat Jules Verne's fictional phileas foggs time of 80 days to
travel around the world. She did it in 72 days.
1922 - The British Broadcasting Corporation began its domestic radio service from 2l0 at
Marconi house.
1969 - Apollo 12 the second manned expedition was launched.
1995 - The US federal government began a partial show down of government services after
the US congress could not pass a budget.
2002 - Nancy pelosi of California became the first woman to lead a party in congress.
2003 - The most distant object ever found in our solar system, named sedna,was discovery
1680 - Gottfried Kirch discover the Great comet of 1680
1896 - Power plant at Niagara begins operation.
1380 - King Charles vi of France crowned at age 12.
1666 - Samuel Pepys reports on first blood transfusion (between dogs).
1792 - Captain George Vancouver is first Englishman to enter San Francisco Bay.
1834 - William Thomson enters university of Glasgow at age 10 and 4 months.
1881 - Charles J.Gulteau put on trial for the assassination of US president Garfield.
1906 - US president Theodole Roosevelt visits Panama.
1908 - Albert Einstein presents his quantum theory of light.
1940 - During WW ll German planes destroy most of coventy ,England.
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