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
1917-Apr-02 President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to declare war against Germany
1926-Jan-26 John Logie Baird gave the first public demonstration of a live television system
1814-Jul-25 Innovation of the steam locomotive (engine)
1895-Nov-08 German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen discovered X-Rays
1767-Dec-28 King Taksin was crowned King of Thailand (Siam)
1994-Jan-01 The implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement
1903-Dec-17 Innovation of the aeroplane
1991-Jul-10 Boris Yeltsin was sworn in as the first elected President of Russia
2018-Jun-12 The 2018 North Korea–United States Summit was held in Singapore
1932-Dec-27 Radio City Music Hall opened in New York City
1959-Jan-01 Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista ousted by Castro-led revolution
1964-Jul-02 United States President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law
1945-Oct-24 The United Nations was officially established
1876-Mar-07 Innovation of the telephone
1993-Jan-01 Czechoslovakia was divided into two independent states