Jack Ruby is found to be guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the assumed assassin of John F. Kennedy. Jack Ruby, the Dallas nightclub owner…

Pope Francis is elected as the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church. Bergoglio was elected pope on 13 March 2013, the second day of the…

The first female priests are ordained by the Church of England. Since the Church of England’s split with Rome in 1534, it’s always trodden a…

Michelle Bachelet is inaugurated as first female president of Chile. On January 15, 2006, Michelle Bachelet became Chile’s first woman president-elect. Bachelet came in first…

Astronomers discover the rings of the planet Uranus. For being the third largest body in our solar system not including the Sun, there really wasn’t…

The Space Shuttle Discovery makes its final landing after 39 flights. KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — The shuttle Discovery braved the hellish fire of re-entry…

Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France. Charles-de-Gaulle Airport keeps busy as Europe’s second largest airport, moving 62 million passengers in 2013, but as…

Over 600 civil rights marchers are brutally attacked by state and local police in Selma, Alabama. On March 7, 1965, state troopers and a sheriff’s…

Bayer first registers “Aspirin” as a trademark. On 6 March 1899, the Imperial Patent Office in Berlin registers Aspirin, the brand name for acetylsalicylic acid,…

Britain’s first combat jet aircraft, the Gloster Meteor, has it first flight. The Gloster Meteor was the first British operational jet fighter and the only…