- 1490 Anna of Brittany announces that all those who would ally with the king of France will be considered guilty of the crime of lese-majesty
Charles I Attacks Parliament
1642 King Charles I, with 400 soldiers, attacks the English Parliament
Wuthering Heights
1847 Manuscripts of Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights" and Anne Brontë's "Agnes Grey" sent to publisher T.C. Newby (published December 1847)
Colt Revolver
1847 Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government
- 1863 Four-wheeled roller skates are patented by James Plimpton in New York City
- 1896 Following Mormon abandonment of sanctioned polygamy, Utah is admitted as 45th US state
- 1912 Smallest earth-moon distance this century, 356,375 km center-to-center
- 1936 Billboard magazine publishes its first music hit parade
- 1939 Frieda Wunderlich is elected as the first woman dean of a US graduate school
1st African American at the State Department
1944 Ralph Bunche is appointed as the first African American official in the US State Department
Elvis Records Second Demo
1954 Elvis Presley records his second demo at Sun Studios, a recording studio in Memphis, "It Wouldn't Be The Same Without You" and "I'll Never Stand In Your Way"
- 1958 Sputnik 1 reenters the atmosphere and burns up
1959 USSR's Luna 1 (Mechta) becomes the first spacecraft to escape Earth's gravity
- 1961 Longest recorded strike ends as Danish barbers' assistants end their 33-year strike
- 1962 First automated (unmanned) subway train in New York City
Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
1983 Eurythmics release their breakthrough second studio album "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)"
- 2004 NASA Mars rover Spirit lands successfully on Mars at 04:35 UTC
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