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

1940 Winston Churchill became British Prime Minister, replacing Neville Chamberlain

1949 Queen Juliana of the Netherlands signed the papers to grant independence to Indonesia

1895 German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen discovered X-Rays

1804 Haiti declared its independence from France

1945 International Monetary Fund was formally established by 29 member countries

1924 Astronomer Edwin Hubble formally announced that the Milky Way is just one of many galaxies in the universe

1963 President John F. Kennedy signed the United States Equal Pay Act into law

1959 Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista ousted by Castro-led revolution

1997 The United Kingdom returned Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China

1876 Innovation of the telephone

1863 President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation

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

1945 The United Nations was officially established

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