1609 - Navigator Henry Hudson first European to discover island of Manhattan [or Sep 11]
1682 - English astronomer Edmund Halley observes the comet named after him
1774 - New Caledonia is first sighted by Europeans, during the second voyage of Captain James Cook.
1781 - Los Angeles is founded by 44 Spanish speaking mestizos in the Bahia de las Fumas (Bay of Smokes)
1807 - Robert Fulton begins operating his steamboat
1964 - NASA launches its 1st Orbital Geophysical Observatory (OGO-1)
1998 - Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University
2014 - Aracheological remains of a Viking fortress from the 900s CE, the Vallø Borgring, is discovered in Denmark
