2018
NASA twin study finds that Scott Kelly is no longer identical to his twin brother after one year in space, 7% of his genes altered
2013
Xi Jinping is named as the new President of the People’s Republic of China.
1994
Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released.
1990
Mikhail Gorbachev becomes president of the Soviet Congress.
1974
Quebec to make French the official language of the province.
1964
A jury in Dallas finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the assumed assassin of John F. Kennedy.
1962
Red Wings Gordie Howe the second NHLer to score 500 goals, after Maurice Richard.
1914
Henry Ford announced the new continuous motion method to assemble cars. The process decreased the time to make a car from 12½ hours to 93 minutes.
1899
German Ferdinand von Zeppelin receives a US patent for a “Navigable Balloon”.