781 BC - For the first time in the written history, the solar eclipse has been recorded in China.
1039 - Henry III becomes the Holy Roman Emperor.
1783 - Brothers Montgolfier launch the first hot air balloon.
1784 - Mister Elizabeth Thible is the first woman to fly a balloon.
1792 - Captain George Vancouver declares Puget Sound for British.
1896 - The industrialist and inventor Henry Ford drove himself to his "quadricycle" Detroit.
1917 - Awarded the first Pulitzer Prizes in the United States.
1920 - The Treaty of Trianon was signed in Paris by which about two thirds of the territory and population were taken away to Hungary.
