James Cook is killed by Native Hawaiians near Kealakekua on the Island of Hawaii. Captain James Cook, the British explorer and navigator, was killed on…

Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 million to the Indian government for damages it caused in the 1984 Bhopal disaster. The Bhopal disaster, which occurred…

Wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Frederick V of the Palatinate at Whitehall Palace, London

Jacob Zuma resigns as President of South Africa.

Voting machines are approved by the U.S. Congress for use in federal elections.

Australian currency is decimalized. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimalisation’]

The Bank of England is nationalized. The Bank of England Act 1946 c 27 is an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom which came…

Seven people, six of them gangster rivals of Al Capone’s gang, are murdered in Chicago in what became know as the Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre….

YouTube is launched