Year 1610 » Galileo Galilei makes his first observation of the four Galilean moons: Ganymede (moon) Ganymede, Callisto (moon) Callisto, Io (moon) Io and Europa (moon) Europa, although he is not able to distinguish the last two until the following day.
Year 1782 » The first American commercial bank, the Bank of North America, opens.
Year 1785 » Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover called Dover, England, to Calais e.g Calais, France, in a gas balloon.
Year 1797 » The modern Flag of Italy named Italian flag is first used.
Year 1835 » HMS e.g Beagle drops anchor off the Chonos Archipelago.
Year 1894 » William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for film called motion picture film.
Year 1904 » The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".
Year 1919 » Montenegro or Montenegrin guerrilla fighters Christmas Uprising known as rebel against the planned annexation of Montenegro by Serbia, but fail.
Year 1920 » The New York State Assembly refuses to seat five duly elected Socialist Party of America named Socialist assemblymen.
Year 1922 » Dáil Éireann ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by a 64-57 vote.
Year 1927 » The first transatlantic telephone service is established from New York City named New York, New York to London named London, United Kingdom.
Year 1935 » Benito Mussolini and French Foreign minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco-Italian Agreement.
Year 1940 » Winter War: The Finnish 9th Division Battle of Raate Road named stops and completely destroys the overwhelming Soviet forces on the Raate-Suomussalmi road.
Year 1942 » World War II: The Battle of Bataan or siege of the Bataan Peninsula begins.
Year 1945 » World War II: United Kingdom or British General Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein known as Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference in which he claims credit for victory in the Battle of the Bulge.
Year 1948 » Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while Mantell UFO incident or in pursuit of a supposed unidentified flying object e.g UFO.
Year 1954 » Georgetown-IBM experiment: the first public demonstration of a machine translation system, is held in New York at the head office of IBM.
Year 1959 » The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
Year 1960 » The UGM-27 Polaris called Polaris missile is test launched.
Year 1968 » Surveyor Program: 'Surveyor 7', the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifts off from Spaceport Florida Launch Complex 36 e.g launch complex 36A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station or Cape Canaveral.
Year 1970 » The Punjab Legislative Council (Abolition) Act, 1969 comes into effect.
Year 1979 » Sino-Vietnamese War or Third Indochina War Cambodian–Vietnamese War: Phnom Penh falls to the advancing Vietnamese troops, driving out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.
Year 1980 » U.S. President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out the Chrysler Corporation.
Year 1984 » Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
Year 1989 » Prince Akihito is sworn in as the emperor of Japan after the death of his father Hirohito
Year 1990 » The interior of the Leaning Tower of Pisa is closed to the public for safety reasons.
Year 1993 » The History of Ghana Recent events e.g Fourth Republic of Ghana is inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings as President.
Year 1993 » Bosnian War: The Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina named Bosnian Army executes a Kravica attack (1993) known as surprise attack on the village of Kravica in Srebrenica.
Year 1999 » The Senate trial in the Impeachment of Bill Clinton called impeachment of U.S. President Bill Clinton begins.
Year 2005 » The St Lawrence Lime is blown over in high winds.
Year 2010 » Muslim gunmen in Egypt Nag Hammadi massacre e.g open fire on a crowd of Copts or Coptic Christians, killing eight of them and one Muslim bystander.
Year 2012 » A hot air balloon 2012 Carterton hot air balloon crash e.g crashes near Carterton, New Zealand, killing all 11 people on board.