1600 – British East India Company chartered
1744 – English astronomer James Bradley announces discovery of Earth’s nutation motion (wobble)
1756 – Russia joins the Alliance of Versailles
1857 – Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa as new capital of Canada
1861 – 22,990mm of rain falls in Cherrapunji Assam in India in 1861, a world record
1879 – Edison gives 1st public demonstration of his incandescent lamp
1904 – The first New Year’s Eve celebration is held in Times Square, then known as Longacre Square, in New York, New York.
1911 – Marie Curie receives her 2nd Nobel Prize
1923 – 1st transatlantic radio broadcast of a voice, Pittsburgh-Manchester
1924 – Italian Fascist Mussolini orders the suppression of opposition newspapers
1951 – 1st battery to convert radioactive energy to electricity announced
1968 – 1st supersonic airliner flown (Russian TU-144)
1968 – 1st test flight of Tupolev TU 144
