Events in history
Uranus discovered March 13 1781 By Hershel 1 degree from Polaris.
- Dec 14 1911 Norwegian explorer reaches the south pole - Pluto/Polaris (Polaris is the star on the North Pole)
- Apr 15 1800, born Sir James Clark Ross, Scottish explorer of the Arctic and Antarctic. He was the first to locate the magnetic North Pole; he discovered and named Mount Erebus in Antarctica. - Jupiter/Polaris
- May 6 1856, Robert Peary, Arctic
Explorer and first person to the North Pole, is born in
Cresson, Pennsylvania. - Saturn/Polaris - Sep 6 1909, Word is received that Robert Peary has reached the North Pole and died. - Pluto/Polaris
- Feb 2 1653, New Amsterdam -- now New York City -- was incorporated. Saturn/Kochab
- Mar 12th 1664, New Jersey became a British colony as King Charles the Second granted land in the New World to his brother James, the Duke of York. - Pluto/Polaris
- Mar 28th 1797, Nathaniel Briggs of New Hampshire patented a washing machine. - NNode/Polaris
- Napoleon's coup d'etat of Brumaire, Nov 9th 1799 - Saturn/Kochab
- April 2nd 1860, the first Italian Parliament met at Turin. - Saturn/Pherkad
- April 16th 1862, a bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia became law. - SNode/Polaris
- April 10th 1866, the American
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was
incorporated. - Uranus/Yildun - Jan 1st 1901, the Commonwealth of Australia was proclaimed. - Neptune/Polaris
- Jan 22 1901, End of an era when the Britain's Queen Victoria died. - Neptune/Polaris
- Feb 25th 1901, United States Steel Corporation was incorporated by J.P. Morgan. - Neptune/Polaris
- Feb 12 1912 Boy emperor Pi Yi of China is forced to abdicate ending the Manchi dynasty after 300 years. Yuan Shikai is installed as president of the provisional republic of China. - Pluto/Polaris
- Mar 31 1901 First Mercedes car constructed. - Pluto/Polaris
- Mar 29 1912 A minimum wage is established in Britain - Pluto/Polaris
- May 5th 1912 The Bolshevik newspaper Pravda begins publication in Russia. - Pluto/Polaris
- Mar 16 1915 British government appealed to women to sign up for war work - Pluto/Yildun
- April 24th 1915, the Ottoman Turkish Empire began the brutal mass deportation of Armenians - Pluto/Yildun
- April 25th 1915, during World War One, Allied soldiers invaded the Gallipoli Peninsula in an unsuccessful attempt to take the Ottoman Turkish Empire out of the war. - Pluto/Yildun
- Women's suffrage began in U.S., Aug 26 1920 - Neptune/Kochab
- Jan 3rd 1938, the "March of Dimes" campaign to fight polio was organized. - Chiron/Polaris
- Jan 10th 1946, the first General Assembly of the United Nations convened in London. - NNode/Polaris
- May 1st 1948, the People's Democratic Republic of Korea (North Korea) was proclaimed. - Pluto/Kochab
- May 14th, 1948, the independent state of Israel was proclaimed in Tel Aviv as British rule in Palestine came to an end - Pluto/Kochab
- July 1st 1948, New York International Airport (now John F. Kennedy International Airport) at Idlewild was officially opened. - Uranus, Mercury and Venus/Polaris
- July 5th 1948 In Britain the National Health Service together with other welfare schemes comes into effect. - Uranus/Polaris
- Dec 9 1948 The UN assembly adopts the declaration of human rights. - Uranus /Polaris
- Russian blockade of Berlin began, June 24th 1948 - Pluto/Kochab
- Feb 25th 1948, Communists seized power in Czechoslovakia. - Pluto/Kochab
- Jan 7th 1949 - The announcement of the first photograph of genes was presented at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. - Uranus/Polaris
- Jan 22 1949 In the Chinese civil war Beijing fall to the communists. - Uranus/Polaris
- North Atlantic Treaty (NATO) signed at Washington, April 4 1949 - Uranus/Polaris
- April 8 1949 Britain France and Jermany reach an agreement on the establishment of a new German state (West German). - Uranus/Polaris
- Eire leaves the Commonwealth of nations and becomes the Republic of Ireland. - Uranus/Polaris
- May 11th 1949, Siam changed its named to Thailand. - Uranus/Polaris
- May 29th 1953 Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tensing reached the summit of Mt Everest - Pluto/Pherkad
- April 12th 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man to fly in space, orbiting the earth once before making a safe landing. - Uranus/Pherkad
- 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. - Uranus/Pherkad
- April 20th 1971, the Supreme Court upheld the use of busing to achieve racial desegregation in schools. - SNode/Pherkad
- Feb 2 1974 China launches its cultural revolution. - Saturn/Polaris
- Feb 8th 1974, the three-man crew of the "Skylab" space station returned to Earth after spending 84 days in space. - Saturn/Polaris
- Jan 10th 1978, the Soviet Union launched two cosmonauts aboard a "Soyuz" capsule for a rendezvous with the "Salyut Six" space laboratory. - Jupiter/Polaris
- Jan 16th 1978, NASA named 35 candidates to fly on the space shuttle, including Sally Ride, who became America's first woman in space, and Guion S. Bluford Junior, who became America's first black astronaut in space. - Jupiter/Polaris
- April 4th 1983, the space shuttle "Challenger" roared into orbit on its maiden voyage. - NNode/Polaris
- May 7th 1992, the space shuttle "Endeavor" blasted off on its maiden voyage. SNode/Yildun
- May 5th 1925, John T. Scopes was arrested in Tennessee for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution. Mars/Polaris
- May 17th, 1954, the Supreme Court issued its landmark "Brown versus Board of Education of Topeka" ruling, which held that racially segregated public schools were inherently unequal. Jupiter/Polaris
- April 20th 1971, the Supreme Court upheld the use of busing to achieve racial desegregation in schools. SNode/Pherkad.
- April 24th 1800, Congress approved a bill establishing the Library of Congress. Jupiter/Yildun