Facts & Historical Events On This Day.
Craig David was appointed as Goodwill Ambassador against tuberculosis (TB) by the World Health Organization.
The Office, created by Ricky Gervais in the UK, aired its first US season on NBC.
For the first time in its history, NATO attacks a sovereign country.
A truck carrying margarine and flour caught fire inside the Mont Blanc Tunnel.
Carolyn & Eugene Shoemaker and David Levy discovered the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet.
Oil tanker 'Exxon Valdez' runs aground in Prince William Sound, Alaska.
Millions watch NASA spacecraft Ranger 9 crash into the Moon.
Elvis Presley enlisted in the US army.
The world's first international women's sporting event began in Monaco.
The Rapid Transit Railroad broke ground on a new underground subway to link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
Aleksander Popov achieves the world's first radio transmission.
The first telephone call was made between New York and Chicago.
Dr. Robert Koch discovered Mycobacterium Tuberculosis which is bacteria that causes tuberculosis (TB).
The Provincial Freeman Anti-slavery newspaper was first published in Ontario, Canada.
Black citizens were given the right to vote in Canada.
King James VI of Scotland was crowned King James I of England and Ireland.
