1691 - The city, Yorktown, Virginia is established.
1797 - Comet C / 1797 P1 (Bouvard-Herschel) crosses the Earth at an average distance of 0.0879 AUs.
1834 - Charles Darwin climbs to Mount Campana in Chile.
1896 - In Yukon, northwestern Canada, George Carmack discovers gold, which has prompted tens of thousands of adventurers to go looking, in a so-called gold rush.
1960 - Joseph Keatinger skidded with a parachute over New Mexico at a height of 31,330 meters, setting three still current records: the highest jump, the longest free fall and the highest speed of a man without a spacecraft
1984 - NASA launches Ampte.
