1996-Mar-17 Sri Lanka won the Cricket World Cup
1964-Jul-02 United States President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law
1863-Jan-01 President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation
1836-Dec-28 Spain recognized the independence of Mexico by signing the Santa María–Calatrava Treaty
1807-Aug-17 Innovation of the steamboat
1901-Dec-12 Guglielmo Marconi sent and received the first wireless message across the Atlantic Ocean
1924-Jan-25 The first Winter Olympic Games opened in Chamonix, France
2018-Jun-12 The 2018 North Korea–United States Summit was held in Singapore
1903-Dec-17 Innovation of the aeroplane
1991-Jul-10 Boris Yeltsin was sworn in as the first elected President of Russia
2003-Jun-10 The Spirit Rover was launched by NASA to start the Mars Exploration Rover mission
1917-Apr-02 President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to declare war against Germany
1921-Jul-01 The Communist Party of China (CPC) was formed, and Chen Duxiu was elected its leader
