1599 ~ Birthday of Oliver Cromwell, Protector.

1719 ~ ”Robinson Crusoe” by Daniel Defoe is published.

1840 ~ Birthday of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer.

1859 ~ Ground is broken for the Suez Canal.

1874 ~ Birthday of Guglielmo Marconi, Electrical engineer and Nobel Prize laureate.

1900 ~ Birthday of Wolfgang Pauli, physicist and Nobel Prize laureate.

1953 ~ In an article in "Nature", James Watson and Francis Crick described the structure of a chemical called deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA.

1917 ~ Birthday of Ella Fitzgerald, Jazz Singer.

1959 ~ The St. Lawrence Seaway linking the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean officially opened.

1961 ~ Robert Noyce is granted the first patent for an integrated circuit.


ANZAC Day (Australia, New Zealand)

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