1519- Cortez lands in Mexico with his five hundred and eight soldiers in search of riches.
1639- Cambridge College is changed to Harvard in honor of Clergyman John Harvard.
1677- Massachusetts pays $6,000 for the title to Maine.
1759- Halley’s Comet’s 27th perihelion passage.
1781- Uranus is discovered and is mistaken for a comet by Sir William Herschel.
1790- The first American born actor, John Martin, performs in Philadelphia.
1852- NY Lantern Weekly publishes the first Uncle Sam Cartoon Figure.
1878- The first golf match between Oxford and Cambridge takes place and Oxford wins.
1887- Earmuffs are patented by Chester Greenwood from Maine.
1897- San Diego State University is founded in California.
1921- Mongolia declares its independence from China.
1925- In the state of Tennessee, it is unlawful to teach evolution.
1928- In NYC the “Three Musketeers” musical by Rudolph Friml premieres.
1930- At Lowell Observatory, Clyde Tombaugh announces his discovery of Pluto.
1960- The National Football League’s Chicago Cardinals move to St. Louis.
1968-“Lady Madonna” by the Beatles is released in the UK.
1969- Apollo 9, after completing the first flight of the Command/Service Module, returns to Earth.
1989- Discovery 8, 27th U.S. shuttle, launched and it was the first countdown done by a woman.
2008- The price of Gold in the New York Mercantile Exchange hits $1,000 for the very first time.
2012- It is announced that there will be no more printed copies made of the Encyclopedia Britannica.
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