1814 Innovation of the steam locomotive (engine)

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

1807 Innovation of the steamboat

1940 Winston Churchill became British Prime Minister, replacing Neville Chamberlain

1994 Nelson Mandela sworn in as the first black president of South Africa

1767 King Taksin was crowned King of Thailand (Siam)

1876 Innovation of the telephone

1964 United States President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law

1903 Innovation of the aeroplane

1895 German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen discovered X-Rays

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

1964 Kenya became a republic

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

1932 Radio City Music Hall opened in New York City

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