On this day in 1901 after her 63 year long reign Queen Victoria of England died.

The U.S. Senate confirmed Madeleine Albright as The first female secretary of state was Madeline Albright, confirmed by the U.S. Senate in 1997.

On “Bloody Sunday” in St. Petersburg, Russia five-hundred worker’s were killed by the Czar’s troops.

Former President Lyndon B. Johnson died at age 64 in the year 1973. 

With the case Roe v. Wade the Supreme Court legalized some abortions in the U.S. on this day in history 1973.

The first nuclear-powered submarine was launched in 1954 and was called the USS Nautilus.

On this day in history 1924, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin died in Moscow.

George Orwell died in London in the year 1950.

President Carter pardoned most Vietnam War draft evaders in 1977.

The Beatles released their first album in the United States in 1964 called, Meet the Beatles.

On this day in history 1986 Martin Luther King, Jr., day was celebrated as a federal holiday for the first time.

John Marshall was appointed Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court on this day in history 1801.

As a result of the First Opium War in 1841, Hong Kong was ceded to Britain.

At the age of 69 President Reagan became the oldest president to take office for a total of 349 days in 1981.

On this day in history 1733 the first polar bear was exhibited in America, in Boston.

Captain James Cook became the first European to visit the Sandwich Islands, aka Hawaii, in 1778.

Arriving in Australia’s Botany Bay in the year 1788 was the First Fleet, carrying convicts and sheep.

The Nazi siege of Leningrad was broken in the year 1943.

All 50 states joined in 1993 to observe Martin Luther King, Jr.day.

Gary Gilmore, in the year 1977, became the first person executed in the U.S. since the death penalty was reintroduced.

In the year 1706 Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston.

The grandson of Thomas Jefferson, James Madison Randolph, became the first child born in the White House in 1806.

The first U.S. president to testify as a defendant in a criminal or civil suit, while in office, was President Bill Clinton was in 1998.

On this day in history 1547 Ivan the Terrible was crowned the first czar of Russia.

The wife of Clark Gable, actress Carole Lombard, died in a plane crash.

In the year 1920 a year after its ratification, the 18th Amendment to the Constitution which prohibited the sale of alcoholic beverages, went into effect.

Operation Desert Storm was announced by the White House on this day in history 1991.

The space shuttle known as the Columbia blasted off only for the craft to break up on its descent on February 1, killing all on board in 2003.

For the first time in Harper’s Weekly, 1870, the donkey was first used as the symbol of the Democratic Party.

In the year 1943 construction on the Pentagon was completed making it the world’s largest office building.

On this day in history 1559 Queen Elizabeth I was crowned in Westminster Abbey.

Later to be renamed Vermont, the Republic of New Connecticut declared its independence in 1777.

The first Super Bowl was played in 1967 between Green Bay Packers 35, Kansas City Chiefs 10.

On this day in history 2008 the first elected Indian-American was Bobby Jindal who took office as the governor of Louisiana.

In the year 1999 basketball player Michael Jordan retired for the second time only to come out of retirement again in 2001.

On this day in history 1941 the novelist James Joyce died in Zurich.

The first elected African-American governor was one Douglas Wilder in 1990.

Joseph Darby, a U.S. soldier at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison, reported the U.S. soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners of the Army’s Criminal Investigations Division on this day in history 2004.

The first woman elected to the U.S. Senate was Hattie Caraway in.

On this day in history 1773 the first public museum for the United States was established in Charleston, South Carolina.

The first X-ray photograph, which was of a hand with a bullet in it, was taken by H.L. Smith in 1896.

The U.S. House of Representatives in 19151932 rejected a proposal to give women the right to vote.

In the year 1998 an agreement was signed by nineteen European countries banning human cloning.