1814-Jul-25 Innovation of the steam locomotive (engine)
1901-Dec-12 Guglielmo Marconi sent and received the first wireless message across the Atlantic Ocean
1926-Jan-26 John Logie Baird gave the first public demonstration of a live television system
1940-May-10 Winston Churchill became British Prime Minister, replacing Neville Chamberlain
1997-Jul-01 The United Kingdom returned Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China
1924-Jan-25 The first Winter Olympic Games opened in Chamonix, France
1974-Jan-02 President Richard Nixon signed the national speed limit into law
1807-Aug-17 Innovation of the steamboat
1917-Apr-02 President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to declare war against Germany
1895-Nov-08 German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen discovered X-Rays
1903-Dec-17 Innovation of the aeroplane
1949-Dec-27 Queen Juliana of the Netherlands signed the papers to grant independence to Indonesia
1990-Jan-03 Panamanian dictator Noriega surrendered to the United States
2018-Jun-18 WHO officially announced it will categorize gaming addiction as a mental health condition
1996-Mar-17 Sri Lanka won the Cricket World Cup
1876-Mar-07 Innovation of the telephone
1963-Jun-10 President John F. Kennedy signed the United States Equal Pay Act into law
1836-Dec-28 Spain recognized the independence of Mexico by signing the Santa María–Calatrava Treaty
2003-Jun-10 The Spirit Rover was launched by NASA to start the Mars Exploration Rover mission
1991-Jul-10 Boris Yeltsin was sworn in as the first elected President of Russia
