1798 - A snowstorm in New England kills over 100 people.
1831 - Ecuador and Venezuela are separated from Greater Columbia.
1855 - David Livingstone is the first European to see the Victoria Falls, between Zambia and Zimbabwe.
1914 - The United States declares Panama Canal for a neutral zone.
1967 - Surveyor 6 is the first object made by a man who takes off from the moon.

1835 - Charles Darwin's voyage published in Cambridge Philosophical Society
1840 - New Zealand officially becomes British colony
1907 - Oklahoma becomes the United States 46th state
1918 - Hungarian People's Republic declared
1945 - UNESCO is founded.
1973 - Skylab 4 launched into Earth orbit
WORLD FOOD DAY

1492 - Christopher Columbus for the first time writes about the use of tobacco by the Indians.
1533 - Francisco Pizarro arrives in Cuzco.
1577 - Mr. Francis Drake travels from Chile to Washington.
1835 - Charles Darwin reached Tahiti.
1988 - Palestine is declared a republic.

1524 - Francisco Pizarro begins his first expedition.
1792 - Captain George Vancouver is the first Englishman to enter the San Francisco Bay.
1833 - Charles Darwin leaves to Montevideo.
1969 - Apollo 12 (Conrad / Gordon / Bean) is launched for the second-hand flight to the Moon.
1985 - Volcano Nevado del Ruiz Colombia kills 1,000 people.
World Diabetes Day

1789 - In Versailles, the Constitutional Assembly adopts the Declaration on the Rights of Man and Citizen.
1883 - The eruption of the Krakatau Volcano in the Pacific. As a result of the eruption and the created tsunami, over 36,000 people died.
1910 - Agneza Gonja Bojadzhiu (Mother Teresa) was born, a Catholic religion Catholic religion, a nun, a Nobel Peace Prize winner.
1974 - Soyuz 15 transmits 2 cosmonauts to the space station Salyut 3.
1974 - Guinea Busau becomes independent from Portugal.
1981 - Voyager 2 captures the moon of Saturn, Titan.