681 - Bulgaria is founded as a Khanate on the south bank of the Danube, after defeating the Byzantine armies of Emperor Constantine IV south of the Danube delta.
1778 - Captain Cook reaches Cape Prince of Wales, Bering straits
1819 - Jonathan Homer Lane, Geneseo, New York, USA, American astrophysicist who mathmatically analyzed the Sun as a gaseous body.
1831 - 1st US steam engine train run (Albany to Schenectady, NY)
1973 - USSR launches Mars 7
1990 - Soyuz TM-10 lands
