1868 – The first traffic lights are installed, outside the Palace of Westminster in London. Resembling railway signals, they use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps.

1968 – Douglas Engelbart gave what became known as "The Mother of All Demos", publicly debuting the computer mouse, hypertext, and the bit-mapped graphical user interface using the oN-Line System (NLS).

1965 – Kecksburg UFO incident: A fireball is seen from Michigan to Pennsylvania; witnesses report something crashing in the woods near Pittsburgh. In 2005 NASA admits that it examined the object.

1962 – The Petrified Forest National Park is established in Arizona.

1851 – The first YMCA in North America is established in Montreal, Quebec.

2010 – The Japanese solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS passes the planet Venus at a distance of about 80,800 km.

2010 – With the second launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 and the first launch of the SpaceX Dragon, SpaceX becomes the first private company to successfully launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft.

1813 – Premier of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony.

1660 – A woman (either Margaret Hughes or Anne Marshall) appears on an English public stage for the first time, in the role of Desdemona in a production of Shakespeare's play Othello.

 gypsyman wrote: 

Nope.  It happened.  It is real. 

History is a review of the good, the bad and the ugly.

There are some things that cannot be swept under the rug and shouldn't be.

History is real.  Cherry picking is how revisionism begins.  What's next ?  WW II didn't happen ?

We already have a host of Holocaust deniers.

72 years ago, Japanese attack Pearl Harbor. The greatest generation comes to life on a day of infamy.

I couldn't just leave it blank.

 Red_Dragon wrote: 
 
Okay.

 Alexandra wrote: 
trying to keep it positive...

 Red_Dragon wrote: 
 
I thought sure there would be a different post from you in here this morning...

1972 – Apollo 17, the last Apollo moon mission, is launched. The crew takes the photograph known as The Blue Marble as they leave the Earth.

1969 – The four node ARPANET network is established.

1933 – Prohibition in the United States ends: Utah becomes the 36th U.S. state to ratify the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution, thus establishing the required 75% of states needed to enact the amendment. (This overturned the 18th Amendment which had made the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcohol illegal in the United States.)

1932 – German-born Swiss physicist Albert Einstein is granted an American visa.

 JrzyTmata wrote: 
 now I have song-stuck-in-da-haid syndrome ...

 Red_Dragon wrote: 
Go Funky Claude!