1774 - Rhode Island becomes first colony to prohibit importation of slaves
1894 – Railway Bitola – Thessaloniki put in traffic.
1898 - Yukon Territory of Canada organized, Dawson chosen as capital
1935 - Aleksandr Alekseyevich Kiselyov, Russia, cosmonaut
1956 - After 72 years, Britain gives up Suez Canal to Egyptian control
1963 - Vostok 6 launched, pilot is 1st woman cosmonaut
1983 - Pioneer 10 becomes the 1st man-made object to leave the solar system
