Events in history
- Mar 28th 1797, Nathaniel Briggs of New Hampshire patented a washing machine. - Pluto/Ancha
- W.H. Fox Talbot produces first photographic negative, Jan 25 1839. - Neptune/Albali
- Feb 11th 1847, American inventor Thomas Alva Edison was born in Milan, Ohio. - Saturn/Sadalmelik
- Mar 3 1847, the inventor of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell, was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. - Saturn/Sadalbachi
- First Atlantic cable completed Aug 9th 1858. - Neptune/Sadalmelik
- Mar 3 1847 Born Alexander Graham Bell Scientist, He produced the first telephonic transmission on 5 June 1875, and patented the telephone the following year. - Saturn in 12th/Sadalbachi
- First intelligible sentences transmitted by Bell on the telephone, Mar 10 1876 - Saturn/Ancha
- April 23 1896, the "Vitascope" system for projecting movies onto a screen was demonstrated in New York City. - NNode/Ancha
- Feb 23rd 1927, President Coolidge signed a bill creating the Federal Radio Commission, forerunner of the Federal Communications Commission. - Jupiter/Situla
- May fifth, 1961, astronaut Alan B. Shepard Junior became America's first space traveler as he made a 15-minute sub-orbital flight in a capsule launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida. - SNode/Sadalmelik
- May 14th 1973, the United States launched "Skylab One," its first manned space station. - Jupiter/Albali
- Jan 20th 1986, Britain and France announced plans to build the Channel Tunnel. - Jupiter/Ancha
- Jan 24th 1986, the "Voyager Two" space probe swept past Uranus, coming within 50,679 miles of the seventh planet of the solar system. - Jupiter/Ancha
Aviation
- Feb 26th 1940, the United States Air Defense Command was created. - NNode/Ancha
Revolution and war
- Universal Inquisition established in Rome, July 21 1542 - NNode/Skat
- Napoleon's coup d'etat of Brumaire, Nov 9th 1799 - Pluto/Sadalmelik
- Revolution breaks out in Paris, July 27 1830 - Uranus/Albali
- March sixth, 1836, the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas, fell to Mexican forces after a 13-day siege. - Uranus/Sadalmelik
- April second, 1917, President Wilson asked Congress to declare war against Germany, saying, "The world must be made safe for democracy." - Uranus/Ancha
- Feb 27th 1933, Germany's parliament building, the Reichstag, caught fire. The Nazis, blaming the Communists, used the fire as a pretext for suspending civil liberties. - Saturn/Albali, NNode/Skat
- April 19th 1943, during World War Two, tens of thousands of Jews living in the Warsaw Ghetto began a valiant but futile battle against Nazi forces. - SNode/Ancha
- May 4th 1961, a Jan 27th 1943, some 50 bombers struck Wilhelmshaven in the first all-American air raid against Germany during World War Two. - Neptune/Sadalmelik
- May 4th 1961, a group of "Freedom Riders" left Washington for New Orleans to challenge racial segregation in interstate buses and bus terminals. - SNode/Ancha
- Feb 26th 1993 A bomb built by a group of Islamic extremists exploded in the parking garage of New York's World Trade Center, killing six people and injuring more than one-thousand others. - Saturn/Ancha
New directions
- Jan 3rd 1521, Martin Luther was excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church. - Saturn/Albali, Neptune/Sadalbachi
- Shogunate abolished in Japan, Jan 3 1868. Jupiter/Sadalbachi. - SNode/Skat
- Sept 3rd 1783 Definitive Treaty of Peace signed ending American Revolution. - Pluto/Albali
- Jan 14th 1784, the United States ratified a peace treaty with England ending the Revolutionary War. - Pluto/Albali
- May 14th, 1948, the independent state of Israel was proclaimed in Tel Aviv as British rule in Palestine came to an end. - SNode/Skat
- Second Vatican Council opens, Oct 11th 1962 and brought changes to Catholicism - Jupiter/Sadalmelik
Humane organizations
- Bob Geldof Singer, Actor, instigated and was the driving force behind Live Aid in July 1985. - NNode in 2nd/Skat
- April 14th 1775, the first American society for the abolition of slavery was organized by Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush. - SNode/Sadalbachi
- Jan 1 1863, President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring that slaves in rebel states were free. - Saturn/Sadalmelik