1771 | Spain ceded the Falkland Islands to Britain. |
1889 | Columbia Phonograph Music Company was founded in Washington, D.C. |
1939 | Attempts to split the uranium atom at Columbia University were successful. |
1952 | The world's first jet passenger aircraft started to serve in the fleet of BOAC airline. |
1970 | Boeing 747 made its first flight to London. |
1980 | Nuclear physicist Dr. Andrei Sakharov was sent into internal exile in the USSR. |
1984 | Apple Macintosh, the first commercial computer with a user-friendly graphical interface that made the computer popular with users, was released. |
2007 | The winner of the Golden Spider 2006 "Best Content" award was Wikipedia. |