1659 - The Netherlands, England and France sign the Treaty of The Hague.
1790 - Alfredo Manuel Quimper is investigating the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
1879 - The first electric railway is open at the Berlin Fair.
1879 - Madison Square, named after fourth president James Madison, was opened.
1910 - The Cape Good Hope is becoming part of the Union of South Africa. The Union of South Africa announces independence from the United Kingdom.
1961 - South Africa has been declared as a republic, Charles Roberts Swart was elected president of the South, and the country left the British Commonwealth.
