1996-Mar-17 Sri Lanka won the Cricket World Cup
1956-Mar-03 Dutch swimmer Cockie Gastelaars broke two decades' world record for 100m freestyle
1924-Jan-25 The first Winter Olympic Games opened in Chamonix, France
2018-Jun-18 WHO officially announced it will categorize gaming addiction as a mental health condition
1901-Dec-12 Guglielmo Marconi sent and received the first wireless message across the Atlantic Ocean
1876-Mar-07 Innovation of the telephone
2003-Jun-10 The Spirit Rover was launched by NASA to start the Mars Exploration Rover mission
1965-Aug-06 United States President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law
1959-Jan-01 Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista ousted by Castro-led revolution
1804-Jan-01 Haiti declared its independence from France
1903-Nov-06 The USA recognized the independence of Panama
1964-Dec-12 Kenya became a republic
1945-Dec-27 International Monetary Fund was formally established by 29 member countries
1808-Jan-01 The slave trade became illegal when the United States enacted a law banning the importation of slaves
1994-Jan-01 The implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement
1974-Jan-02 President Richard Nixon signed the national speed limit into law
1926-Jan-26 John Logie Baird gave the first public demonstration of a live television system
1924-Dec-30 Astronomer Edwin Hubble formally announced that the Milky Way is just one of many galaxies in the universe
