1940-May-10 Winston Churchill became British Prime Minister, replacing Neville Chamberlain
1814-Jul-25 Innovation of the steam locomotive (engine)
1945-Dec-27 International Monetary Fund was formally established by 29 member countries
1991-Jul-10 Boris Yeltsin was sworn in as the first elected President of Russia
1964-Dec-12 Kenya became a republic
1964-Jul-02 United States President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law
1963-Jun-10 President John F. Kennedy signed the United States Equal Pay Act into law
1932-Dec-27 Radio City Music Hall opened in New York City
2018-Jun-12 The 2018 North Korea–United States Summit was held in Singapore
1945-Oct-24 The United Nations was officially established
1863-Jan-01 President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation
1835-Dec-29 The Treaty of New Echota was signed between the United States Government and representatives of a minority Cherokee Political Faction
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
1895-Nov-08 German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen discovered X-Rays