2018 WHO officially announced it will categorize gaming addiction as a mental health condition

1807 Innovation of the steamboat

1895 German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen discovered X-Rays

1901 Guglielmo Marconi sent and received the first wireless message across the Atlantic Ocean

2003 The Spirit Rover was launched by NASA to start the Mars Exploration Rover mission

1835 The Treaty of New Echota was signed between the United States Government and representatives of a minority Cherokee Political Faction

1804 Haiti declared its independence from France

1964 Kenya became a republic

1994 The implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement

1959 Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista ousted by Castro-led revolution

1863 President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation

1974 President Richard Nixon signed the national speed limit into law

1926 John Logie Baird gave the first public demonstration of a live television system

1836 Spain recognized the independence of Mexico by signing the Santa María–Calatrava Treaty

1965 United States President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law

1932 Radio City Music Hall opened in New York City