1415 Battle of Agincourt: Henry V's forces defeat larger French army, and the longbow defeats the armored knight (Azincourt, France)

1521 Holy Roman Emperor Charles V bans wooden buildings in Amsterdam and decrees new building have to be built from stone

1616 Dutch East India Company ship "The Eendracht" is the European ship to discover Dirk-Hartog Island, Australia

1780 John Hancock elected the first Governor of Massachusetts in a landslide with over 90% of the vote

1812 US frigate United States captures British vessel Macedonian

1829 Eastern State Penitentiary opens in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as the world's 1st prison to entirely use solitary confinement system intended for rehabilitation; designed by Robert Strickland, it closed in 1971, and is now a museum

1854 The infamous "Charge of the Light Brigade" during the Battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War results in over 100 killed

1861 Telegraph message sent from St Louis to San Francisco

1870 Pimlico Race Course opens in Baltimore

1870 Postcards first used in USA

1891 1st International 6 day bike race (NY Madison Square Garden) ends

1902 Santa Maria, Guatemala hit by Earthquake, killing an estimated 6,000 people

1906 US inventor Lee de Forest patents "Audion", a 3-diode amplification valve which proved a pioneering development in radio & broadcasting

1923 Senate committee publishes 1st report on Teapot Dome scandal

1929 Former Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall convicted of accepting $100,000 bribe in the Teapot scandal - 1st US Cabinet member to go to jail

1930 1st scheduled transcontinental air service began

1940 Benjamin O Davis Sr. becomes 1st African American general in US Army

1952 First Dutch edition of children's magazine "Donald Duck"

1955 Tappan sells 1st microwave oven

1957 Cosa Nostra crime boss Albert Anastasia is murdered in a barber's chair in New York City, probably by fellow mobster Joe Gallo

1960 1st electronic wrist watch placed on sale, NYC

1962 American author John Steinbeck awarded Nobel Prize for Literature

1968 Chicago recognizes Jean Baptiste Pointe de Sable as its 1st settler

1971 The U.N. General Assembly voted to admit mainland China and expel Taiwan.

1974 US Air Force fires 1st ICBM

1994 Susan Smith claims her 2 kids were carjacked (she actually killed them)

2001 Microsoft releases Windows XP for retail sale

2017 First fossil of a ichthyosaur (marine reptile, 152 million years old) found in India. Reports published in "Plos One" science journal.

2018 First work of art produced by artificial intelligence "Edmond de Belamy" conceived by Obvious sells for $432,500 at Christie's in New York

2020 Pope Francis announces appointment of 13 new cardinals including 1st African American Wilton Daniel Gregory

2021 Elon Musk makes a record $25 billion in one day pushing his estimated worth to $255.2 billion, likely making him the richest person ever according to Forbes