1065 A new church devoted to St Peter the Apostle is founded and consecrated by Edward the Confessor in London, later called Westminster Abbey. It is rebuilt in the Gothic style during the mid-13th century. [1]
Galileo Observes Neptune
1612 First observation of Neptune - Galileo observes and records a "fixed star" without realizing it is a planet
- 1836 Spain recognizes the independence of Mexico
- 1846 Iowa becomes 29th state of the United States of America
- 1849 Jean Baptiste Jolly opens the first modern dry cleaning shop in Paris, Teinturerie Jolly-Belin
Tubmans' Last Mission
1860 Harriet Tubman arrives in Auburn, New York, on her last mission to free slaves, having evaded capture for eight years on the Underground Railroad
- 1869 William Finley Semple of Mount Vernon, Ohio, patents a form of chewing gum
- 1886 American inventor Josephine Cochrane is granted a patent for the dishwasher [1]
- 1895 Filmmakers the Lumière brothers hold the first commercial film screening at the Salon Indien du Grand Café in Paris
- 1949 20th Century Fox announces it will produce TV programs
- 1958 "The Chipmunk Song" by the Chipmunks (Alvin, Simon & Theodore with David Seville) hits #1
- 1967 Muriel Siebert is the first woman to own a seat on the New York Stock Exchange
- 2023 L’Oréal heiress and businesswoman Françoise Bettencourt Meyers is the first woman to be worth $100 billion, after a rise in the company's share price [1]
