01/01/year	January 1, 1772 - The first traveller's cheques, which can be used in 90 European cities, go on sale.
01/02/year	January 2, 1959 - The first artificial satellite to orbit the moon, Luna 1, is launched by the U.S.S.R.
01/03/year	January 3, 1899 - The first known use of the word automobile, in an editorial in The New York Times.
01/04/year	January 4, 1958 - Sputnik 1 falls to Earth from its orbit.
01/05/year	January 5, 1972 - President Richard Nixon orders the development of a space shuttle program.
01/06/year	January 6, 1974 - In response to the energy crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early.
01/07/year	January 7, 1610 - Galileo Galilei observes the four largest moons of Jupiter for the first time.
01/08/year	January 8, 1838 - Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph using dots and dashes, forerunner of Morse Code.
01/09/year	January 9, 1863 - The first section of the London Underground opens, between Paddington and Farringdon.
01/10/year	January 10, 1870 - John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.
01/11/year	January 11, 1902 - Popular Mechanics magazine was published for the first time.
01/12/year	January 12, 1866 - Royal Aeronautical Society is formed in London.
01/13/year	January 13, 1957 - Wham-O Company produces the first Frisbee.
01/14/year	January 14, 1943 - FDRbecomes the first US President to travel via airplane while in office (to Morocco).
01/15/year	January 15, 2001 - Wikipedia, a free Wiki content encyclopedia, goes online.
01/16/year	January 16, 1909 - Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
01/17/year	January 17, 2007 - Doomsday Clock is set to five minutes to midnight in response to N. Korea nuclear testing.
01/18/year	January 18, 1896 - The X-ray machine is exhibited for the first time.
01/19/year	January 19, 1915 - George Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.
01/20/year	January 20, 1885 - L.A. Thompson patents the roller coaster.
01/21/year	January 21, 1954 - The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, is launched.
01/22/year	January 22, 1984 - Apple Macintosh is introduced during the Super Bowl with the "1984" commercial.
01/23/year	January 23, 1849 - Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded her M.D., becoming the first woman doctor in the US.
01/24/year	January 24, 1848 - California Gold Rush: James W. Marshall finds gold near Sacramento.
01/25/year	January 25, 1890 - Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
01/26/year	January 26, 2006 - Western Union discontinues use of its telegram service.
01/27/year	January 27, 1967 - Apollo 1 astronauts are killed in a fire at the Kennedy Space Center.
01/28/year	January 28, 1986 - Space Shuttle Challenger breaks up, killing all seven astronauts onboard.
01/29/year	January 29, 1886 - Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.
01/30/year	January 30, 1862 - The first American ironclad warship, the USS Monitor, is launched.
01/31/year	January 31, 1961 - Project Mercury: Ham the Chimp travels into outer space.
02/01/year	February 1, 2003 - Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates during reentry, killing all astronauts aboard.
02/02/year	February 2, 1925 - Dog sleds reach Nome, Alaska with diphtheria serum, inspiring the Iditarod race.
02/03/year	February 3, 1690 - The colony of Massachusetts issues the first paper money in America.
02/04/year	February 4, 1936 - Radium E. becomes the first radioactive element to be made synthetically.
02/05/year	February 5, 1971 - Apollo 14 astronauts Shepard and Mitchell land on the moon.
02/06/year	February 6, 1815 - New Jersey grants the first American railroad charter to a John Stevens.
02/07/year	February 7, 1969 - The original Hetch Hetchy Moccasin Powerhouse is removed from service.
02/08/year	February 8, 1922 - President Warren G. Harding introduces the first radio in the White House.
02/09/year	February 9, 1942 - Daylight saving time goes into effect in the United States.
02/10/year	February 10, 1996 - The IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov for the first time.
02/11/year	February 11, 1939 - Lockheed P-38 flies from California to New York in 7 hours 2 minutes.
02/12/year	February 12, 2001 - NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft is the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
02/13/year	February 13, 1880 - Thomas Edison observes the Edison effect.
02/14/year	February 14, 1989 - The first of 24 satellites of the Global Positioning System is placed into orbit.
02/15/year	February 15, 1971 - Decimalisation of British coinage is completed on Decimal Day.
02/16/year	February 16, 2005 - The Kyoto Protocol comes into force, following its ratification by Russia.
02/17/year	February 17, 1958 - Saint Clare of Assisi declared the patron saint of television.
02/18/year	February 18, 1953 - The first 3D film, Bwana Devil, opens.
02/19/year	February 19, 1878 - The phonograph is patented by Thomas Edison.
02/20/year	February 20, 1962 - Mercury astronaut John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the earth.
02/21/year	February 21, 1953 - Francis Crick and James D. Watson discover the structure of the DNA molecule.
02/22/year	February 22, 1997 - Announcement that a sheep named Dolly had been successfully cloned.
02/23/year	February 23, 1455 - Publication of the Gutenberg Bible, the first Western book printed with movable type.
02/24/year	February 24, 1970 - National Public Radio is founded in the United States.
02/25/year	February 25, 1836 - Samuel Colt receives an American patent for the Colt revolver.
02/26/year	February 26, 1935 - Daventry Experiment which led to development of RADAR in the United Kingdom.
02/27/year	February 27, 1812 - Lord Byron addresses the House of Lords, in defense of Luddites.
02/28/year	February 28, 1939 - The word "dord" is discovered in the Webster's New International Dictionary.
02/29/year	February 29, 1504 - Christopher Columbus uses lunar eclipse to convince Native Americans to give him supplies.
03/01/year	March 1, 2006 - English-language Wikipedia reaches its one millionth article, Jordanhill railway station.
03/02/year	March 2, 1791 - A semaphore machine is unveiled in Paris.
03/03/year	March 3, 2005 - Steve Fossett flies an airplane around the world solo without any stops without refueling.
03/04/year	March 4, 1977 - The first Cray-1 supercomputer is shipped to the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
03/05/year	March 5, 1970 - The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty goes into effect.
03/06/year	March 6, 1869 - Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
03/07/year	March 7, 2006 - Apple Inc. is granted the patent to the iPod.
03/08/year	March 8, 1618 - Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion.
03/09/year	March 9, 2006 - Liquid water is discovered on Enceladus, the sixth largest moon of Saturn.
03/10/year	March 10, 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call.
03/11/year	March 11, 1918 - First confirmed cases of the Spanish Flu.
03/12/year	March 12, 1894 - Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time.
03/13/year	March 13, 1986 - Microsoft has its initial public offering.
03/14/year	March 14, 1794 - Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin.
03/15/year	March 15, 1985 - The first Internet domain name is registered (symbolics.com).
03/16/year	March 16, 1942 - First V-2 rocket test launch (exploded at liftoff).
03/17/year	March 17, 1845 - The rubber band is patented.
03/18/year	March 18, 2003 - British Sign Language is recognised as an official British language.
03/19/year	March 19, 1918 - The U.S. Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time.
03/20/year	March 20, 1916 - Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity.
03/21/year	March 21, 1970 - The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto.
03/22/year	March 22, 1960 - Schawlow and Townes receive the first patent for a laser.
03/23/year	March 23, 1989 - Pons and Fleischmann make cold fusion claim at the University of Utah.
03/24/year	March 24, 1989 - Exxon Valdez oil spill.
03/25/year	March 25, 1995 - Ward Cunningham opens the first wiki, the WikiWikiWeb.
03/26/year	March 26, 1953 - Jonas Salk announces his polio vaccine.
03/27/year	March 27, 1970 - The Concorde makes its first supersonic flight.
03/28/year	March 28, 1979 - Three Mile Island nuclear power plant accident.
03/29/year	March 29, 1886 - Dr. John Pemberton brews the first batch of Coca-Cola in a backyard in Atlanta, Georgia.
03/30/year	March 30, 1951 - First UNIVAC I computer delivered to the United States Census Bureau.
03/31/year	March 31, 1966 - Soviet Union launches Luna 10, the first spaceprobe to enter orbit around the Moon.
04/01/year	April 1, 1826 - Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine.
04/02/year	April 2, 1792 - The Coinage Act is passed establishing the United States Mint.
04/03/year	April 3, 1996 - Suspected Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski is arrested at his Montana cabin.
04/04/year	April 4, 1581 - Francis Drake completes a circumnavigation of the world.
04/05/year	April 5, 1923 - Firestone Tire and Rubber Company starts production of balloon-tires.
04/06/year	April 6, 1965 - Launch of Early Bird, the first communications satellite in synchronous orbit.
04/07/year	April 7, 1978 - Development of the neutron bomb is canceled by U.S. President Jimmy Carter.
04/08/year	April 8, 1867 - The first World's Fair is inaugurated in Paris.
04/09/year	April 9, 1967 - The first Boeing 737 takes its maiden flight.
04/10/year	April 10, 1866 - Founding of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA).
04/11/year	April 11, 1970 - Apollo 13 is launched.
04/12/year	April 12, 1961 - Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel into space.
04/13/year	April 13, 1974 - Launch of first US commercial geosynchronous communications satellite.
04/14/year	April 14, 2003 - Human Genome Project successfully completed.
04/15/year	April 15, 1892 - The General Electric Company forms.
04/16/year	April 16, 1912 - Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
04/17/year	April 17, 1973 - Federal Express delivers its first package.
04/18/year	April 18, 1775 - Two lanterns were hung in the steeple of the Old North Church in Boston.
04/19/year	April 19, 1928 - The 125th and final fascicle of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
04/20/year	April 20, 1862 - The first pasteurization test completed by Pasteur and Bernard.
04/21/year	April 21, 1994 - The first extrasolar planets are announced by Alexander Wolszczan.
04/22/year	April 22, 1915 - Chlorine gas used as chemical weapon in Second Battle of Ypres, World War I.
04/23/year	April 23, 1968 - United Kingdom produces first decimalised coins, 5p and 10p.
04/24/year	April 24, 1990 - The Hubble Space telescope is launched.
04/25/year	April 25, 1792 - Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.
04/26/year	April 26, 1986 - Nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
04/27/year	April 27, 1981 - Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse.
04/28/year	April 28, 1947 - Thor Heyerdahl set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki.
04/29/year	April 29, 2004 - Oldsmobile builds its final car ending 107 years of production.
04/30/year	April 30, 1939 - During the 1939 World's Fair, FDR becomes the first US President to appear on television.
05/01/year	May 1, 1978 - The first unsolicited bulk commercial email, i.e. spam, sent using ARPANET.
05/02/year	May 2, 2000 - President Clinton announces non-military access to accurate GPS.
05/03/year	May 3, 1715 - Total solar eclipse visible in London.
05/04/year	May 4, 1904 - Construction begins by the United States on the Panama Canal.
05/05/year	May 5, 1925 - John T. Scopes is served an arrest warrant for teaching evolution.
05/06/year	May 6, 1937 - The German zeppelin Hindenberg catches fire and is destroyed.
05/07/year	May 7, 1895 - Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates the world's first radio receiver.
05/08/year	May 8, 1794 - French chemist Antoine Lavoisier is guillotined in Paris.
05/09/year	May 9, 1941 - German submarine U-110 is captured, with its Enigma machine, captured by the Royal Navy.
05/10/year	May 10, 1960 - USS Triton completes first underwater circumnavigation of the earth.
05/11/year	May 11, 1960 - The first contraceptive pill is made available on the market.
05/12/year	May 12, 1941 - The Z3 computer, first working programmable, fully automatic computing device is revealed.
05/13/year	May 13, 1913 - Igor Sikorsky becomes the first man to pilot a four-engine aircraft.
05/14/year	May 14, 1973 - Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched. .
05/15/year	May 15, 1718 - James Puckle, a London lawyer, patents the world's first machine gun.
05/16/year	May 16, 1969 - Venera 5, a Soviet spaceprobe, lands on Venus.
05/17/year	May 17, 1902 - Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism.
05/18/year	May 18, 1998 - United States v. Microsoft antitrust case is filed.
05/19/year	May 19, 1535 - Explorer Jacques Cartier sets sail on second voyage to North America.
05/20/year	May 20, 1940 - The first prisoners arrive at a new concentration camp at Auschwitz.
05/21/year	May 21, 1932 - Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
05/22/year	May 22, 1990 - The Windows 3.0 operating system is released by Microsoft.
05/23/year	May 23, 1929 - The first talking cartoon of Mickey Mouse, The Karnival Kid, was released.
05/24/year	May 24, 1970 - The drilling of the Kola Superdeep Borehole begins in the USSR.
05/25/year	May 25, 1977 - The first film in the Star Wars film series.
05/26/year	May 26, 1908 - The first major commercial oil strike in the Middle East is made.
05/27/year	May 27, 1930 - Chrysler Building opens in New York, tallest man-made structure at the time.
05/28/year	May 28, 585 BC - A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by Greek philosopher and scientist Thales.
05/29/year	May 29, 1953 - Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reach the summit of Mount Everest.
05/30/year	May 30, 1967 - Evel Knievel jumps his motorcycle over 16 cars lined-up in a row.
05/31/year	May 31, 1927 - The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line.
08/08/year	August 8, 1876 - Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.
08/09/year	August 9, 1173 - Construction of the Tower of Pisa begins, and it takes two centuries to complete.
08/10/year	August 10, 1675 - The foundation stone of the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London was laid.
08/11/year	August 11, 1950 - Birthday of Steve Wozniak, American computer pioneer.
08/12/year	August 12, 1851 - Isaac Singer granted a patent for his sewing machine.
08/13/year	August 13, 1902 - Birthday of Felix Wankel, inventor of the Wankel engine.
08/14/year	August 14, 2003 - A widescale power blackout in the northeast United States and Canada.
08/15/year	August 15, 1877 - Inventor Thomas Edison makes the first-ever recording - "Mary Had a Little Lamb."
08/16/year	August 16, 1858 - President Buchanan inaugurates transatlantic telegraph cable by exchanging greetings with Queen Victoria.
08/17/year	August 17, 1807 - Robert Fulton's first American steamboat leaves New York City for Albany, New York on the Hudson River.
08/18/year	August 18, 1868 - French astronomer Pierre Jules César Janssen discovers helium.
08/19/year	August 19, 1839 - Presentation of Daguerre's new photographic process to the French Academy of Sciences.
08/20/year	August 20, 1920 - The first commercial radio station, 8MK (WWJ), begins operations in Detroit, Michigan.
08/21/year	August 21, 1888 - The first adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs.
08/22/year	August 22, 1902 - Theodore Roosevelt is the first President of the United States to ride in an automobile.
08/23/year	August 23, 1966 - The Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.
08/24/year	August 24, 1932 - Pilot Amelia Earhart is the first woman to fly across the United States non-stop.
08/25/year	August 25, 1609 - Astronomer Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.
08/26/year	August 26, 2003 - The Columbia Investigation Board releases report on Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
08/27/year	August 27, 1859 - Petroleum discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania, the world's first successful oil well.
08/28/year	August 28, 1845 - First issue of Scientific American magazine is published.
08/29/year	August 29, 1885 - Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first motorcycle.
08/30/year	August 30, 1984 - The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage.
08/31/year	August 31, 1869 - Death of Mary Ward, Irish scientist, first automobile accident victim.
09/01/year	September 1, 1897 - The Boston subway opens, becoming the first underground metro in North America.
09/02/year	September 2, 1969 - First automatic teller machine in the US is installed in Rockville Center, New York.
09/03/year	September 3, 1995 - Founding of eBay.
09/04/year	September 4, 1888 - George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak and receives patent for roll film.
09/05/year	September 5, 1977 - The Voyager 1 probe is launched, reaching Jupiter in 1979.
09/06/year	September 6, 1522 - Magellan's ship "Victoria" sails back to Spain, the first ship to circumnavigate the world.
09/07/year	September 7, 1998 - The date on which Google was incorporated.
09/08/year	September 8, 1966 - The first episode of the science fiction television series Star Trek airs.
09/09/year	September 9, 1926 - The U.S. National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is formed.
09/10/year	September 10, 1977 - Last execution by Guillotine in France.
09/11/year	September 11, 1970 - The Ford Pinto is introduced.
09/12/year	September 12, 1940 - Prehistoric cave paintings discovered in Lascaux, France.
09/13/year	September 13, 1985 - Nintendo releases Super Mario Bros.
09/14/year	September 14, 1886 - The typewriter ribbon is patented.
09/15/year	September 15, 1916 - During World War I, tanks are used for the first time, at the Battle of the Somme.
09/16/year	September 16, 1908 - Car manufactuer General Motors is founded.
09/17/year	September 17, 1976 - The first Space Shuttle, Enterprise, unveiled by NASA.
09/18/year	September 18, 1830 - A horse beats the first U.S.-made locomotive in a race near Baltimore.
09/19/year	September 19, 1957 - First U.S. underground nuclear bomb test.
09/20/year	September 20, 1891 - The first gasoline-powered car debuts in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States.
09/21/year	September 21, 1942 - The B-29 Superfortress makes its maiden flight.
09/22/year	September 22, 2003 - Adventurer David Hempleman-Adams crosses the Atlantic Ocean in a hot air balloon.
09/23/year	September 23, 1889 - The Nintendo company is founded to produce the playing card game Hanafuda.
09/24/year	September 24, 1789 - The United States Post Office is established.
09/25/year	September 25, 1929 - Jimmy Doolittle performs first blind flight to prove full Instrument Flying is possible.
09/26/year	September 26, 1973 - The Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time.
09/27/year	September 27, 1822 - Jean-François Champollion announces that he has deciphered the Rosetta stone.
09/28/year	September 28, 1889 - The first General Conference on Weights and Measures defines the length of a meter.
09/29/year	September 29, 1954 - The convention establishing CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed.
09/30/year	September 30, 1954 - The USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world's first nuclear reactor powered vessel.
10/01/year	October 1, 1811 - First steamboat to sail the Mississippi River arrives in New Orléans, Louisiana.
10/02/year	October 2, 1996 - The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by President Clinton.
10/03/year	October 3, 1942 - Launch of a V-2 rocket in Germany, the first man-made object to reach space.
10/04/year	October 4, 1957 - Launch of Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
10/05/year	October 5, 1905 - Wilbur Wright pilots Wright Flyer III in a flight of 24 miles in 39 minutes, a world record.
10/06/year	October 6, 1927 - Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first major talking movie.
10/07/year	October 7, 1806 - Patent issued for carbon paper.
10/08/year	October 8, 1978 - Ken Warby sets the world water speed record of 317 mph at Blowering Dam, Australia.
10/09/year	October 9, 1446 - The Hangul alphabet is published in Korea.
10/10/year	October 10, 1967 - Outer Space Treaty, signed on January 27 by more than sixty nations, enters into force.
10/11/year	October 11, 1939 - Franklin D. Roosevelt receives letter from Einstein about atom bomb.
10/12/year	October 12, 1928 - An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston.
10/13/year	October 13, 1983 - In Chicago, Ameritech Mobile Communications launches first US cellular network.
10/14/year	October 14, 1947 - Pilot Chuck Yeager flies a Bell X-1 faster than the speed of sound.
10/15/year	October 15, 1878 - The Edison Electric Light Company begins operation.
10/16/year	October 16, 1882 - The Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business.
10/17/year	October 17, 2003 - The roof of Taipei 101 is finished, making it the world's tallest highrise.
10/18/year	October 18, 1954 - Texas Instruments announces the first Transistor radio.
10/19/year	October 19, 1985 - The first Blockbuster Video store opens in Dallas, Texas.
10/20/year	October 20, 2004 - The first Ubuntu Linux distribution is released.
10/21/year	October 21, 1959 - Wernher von Braun is re-assigned from the United States Army to NASA.
10/22/year	October 22, 4004 BC - In Archbishop Ussher's Bible chronology, the universe was created this evening.
10/23/year	October 23, 1906 - Aviation pioneer Alberto Santos-Dumont flies the first heavier-than-air plane in Europe.
10/24/year	October 24, 1861 - The First Transcontinental Telegraph line across the United States is completed.
10/25/year	October 25, 1929 - Fleischer Studios releases its first Talkartoon animation.
10/26/year	October 26, 1936 - The first electric generator at Hoover Dam went into full operation.
10/27/year	October 27, 1977 - The disease of smallpox is declared eradicated.
10/28/year	October 28, 1943 - The alleged Philadelphia Experiment supposedly occurred.
10/29/year	October 29, 1969 - The first computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, precursor to the Internet.
10/30/year	October 30, 1938 - Orson Welles broadcasts radio play of War of the Worlds, causing a nationwide panic.
10/31/year	October 31, 1999 - Yachtsman Jesse Martin completes 11 months circumnavigating the world, solo and non-stop.
11/01/year	November 1, 1859 - The Cape Lookout, North Carolina, lighthouse was lit with a Fresnel lens.
11/02/year	November 2, 1965 - In front of Pentagon, Norman Morrison sets himself on fire to protest use of napalm.
11/03/year	November 3, 1957 - The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2 with the dog named Laika on board.
11/04/year	November 4, 1825 - Completion of the Erie Canal.
11/05/year	November 5, 1895 - The first U.S. patent for an automobile is issued to George B. Selden.
11/06/year	November 6, 1944 - Plutonium is first produced, subsequently used in the atomic bomb.
11/07/year	November 7, 1932 - The radio drama Buck Rogers in the 25th Century airs for the first time.
11/08/year	November 8, 1895 - While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovers x-rays.
11/09/year	November 9, 2004 - The Mozilla Firefox 1.0 web browser is released.
11/10/year	November 10, 1951 - Coast-to-coast direct-dial telephone service begins in the United States.
11/11/year	November 11, 1926 - U.S. Route 66 is established.
11/12/year	November 12, 1990 - Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.
11/13/year	November 13, 1841 - James Braid sees demonstration of animal magnetism, later called hypnosis.
11/14/year	November 14, 889 - Nellie Bly begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days.
11/15/year	November 15, 1971 - Intel releases world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the Intel 4004.
11/16/year	November 16, 1904 - John Ambrose Fleming invents the vacuum tube.
11/17/year	November 17, 1858 - Modified Julian Day zero.
11/18/year	November 18, 1477 - Publisher William Caxton produces the first book printed on a printing press in England.
11/19/year	November 19, 1969 - The Apollo 12 astronauts are the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.
11/20/year	November 20, 1985 - Microsoft Windows 1.0 is released.
11/21/year	November 21, 1877 - Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph.
11/22/year	November 22, 1935 - China Clipper takes off from California to deliver first airmail cargo across Pacific.
11/23/year	November 23, 1889 - The first jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco.
11/24/year	November 24, 1932 - In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory officially opens.
11/25/year	November 25, 1986 - The King Fahd Causeway was officially opened in the Persian Gulf.
11/26/year	November 26, 1805 - Official opening of the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct in Wales.
11/27/year	November 27, 1703 - The first Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed in the Great Storm of 1703.
11/28/year	November 28, 1895 - America's first automobile race is won by Frank Duryea.
11/29/year	November 29, 1961 - Mercury-Atlas 5 Mission launches a chimpanzee into space.
11/30/year	November 30, 1936 - In London, the Crystal Palace destroyed by fire.
12/01/year	December 1, 1913 - Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line.
12/02/year	December 2, 1942 - Enrico Fermi initiates nuclear chain reaction for the Manhattan Project.
12/03/year	December 3, 1973 - The Pioneer 10 probe sends back the first close-up images of Jupiter.
12/04/year	December 4, 1998 - The Unity Module, the second module of the International Space Station, is launched.
12/05/year	December 5, 1952 - The "Great Smog" descends on London, eventually killing thousands.
12/06/year	December 6, 1897 - London becomes the world's first city to host motorised taxicabs.
12/07/year	December 7, 1972 - Apollo 17 crew take the photograph known as "The Blue Marble."
12/08/year	December 8, 1987 - The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty is signed.
12/09/year	December 9, 1793 - New York City's first daily newspaper, American Minerva, established by Noah Webster.
12/10/year	December 10, 1868 - The first traffic lights are installed outside the Houses of Parliament in London.
12/11/year	December 11, 1997 - The Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change opens for signature.
12/12/year	December 12, 1862 - The USS Cairo is the first armored ship to be sunk by an electrically detonated mine.
12/13/year	December 13, 1577 - Sir Francis Drake sets out from Plymouth, England, on his round-the-world voyage.
12/14/year	December 14, 1287 - The Zuider Zee sea wall in the Netherlands collapses, killing over 50,000 people.
12/15/year	December 15, 1994 - The web browser Netscape Navigator 1.0 is released.
12/16/year	December 16, 1997 - Pokémon episode triggers attacks of photosensitive epilepsy, "Pokemon Shock."
12/17/year	December 17, 1969 - The Strategic Arms Limitations Talks (SALT-I) begin.
12/18/year	December 18, 1997 - HTML 4.0 is published by the World Wide Web Consortium.
12/19/year	December 19, 1974 - The Altair 8800 microcomputer kit goes on sale.
12/20/year	December 20, 1951 - Nuclear power first harvested when EBR-1 powers four light bulbs.
12/21/year	December 21, 1968 - The first manned mission to the moon, Apollo 8, is launched.
12/22/year	December 22, 1937 - The Lincoln Tunnel opens to traffic in New York City.
12/23/year	December 23, 1970 - World Trade Center reaches 1,368 feet, the tallest building in the world at that time.
12/24/year	December 24, 1906 - Radio pioneer Reginald Fessenden transmitted the first radio broadcast.
12/25/year	December 25, 2004 - Cassini orbiter releases Huygens probe which will land on Saturn's moon Titan.
12/26/year	December 26, 1982 - TIME magazine's Man of the Year is given to a non-human: the personal computer.
12/27/year	December 27, 1968 - The first manned mission to the moon, Apollo 8, successfully splashes down in the Pacific.
12/28/year	December 28, 1981 - The first American test-tube baby is born in Norfolk, Virginia.
12/29/year	December 29, 1949 - Experimental station KC2XAK is the first Ultra high frequency (UHF) television station.
12/30/year	December 30, 1924 - Astronomer Edwin Hubble announces the existence of other galaxies.
12/31/year	December 31, 1695 - "Window Tax" is imposed in England; shopkeepers brick up windows to avoid the tax.