Columbus Describes Mermaids
1493 Christopher Columbus mistakes manatees for mermaids, describing them as "not half as beautiful as they are painted"
- 1768 Philip Astley stages the world's first modern circus in London
1788 Connecticut becomes the fifth state to ratify the US Constitution
- 1811 First Women's Golf Tournament is held
- 1839 Thomas Henderson measures 1st stellar parallax (Alpha Centauri)
- 1965 Beatles '65 album goes #1 and stays #1 for 9 weeks
- 1968 Surveyor 7 space probe soft-lands on the Moon
- 1969 First test flight of the Concorde supersonic jetliner in Bristol, England
- 1973 Luna 21 launches to the Moon
1984
1984 Rock band Van Halen release their most successful album "1984"
- 1998 Decapitated head of The Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen, Denmark, is returned
- 2001 Apple announced iTunes at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco, for organizing and playing digital music and videos
- 2025 $1 million prize offered for anyone who can decipher the script of the ancient Indus civilisation, by M.K. Stalin, chief minister of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu [1]
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