1682 - William Penn lands at what is now Chester Pennsylvania
1792 - Mount Hood (Oregon) is named after the British naval officer Alexander Arthur Hood by Lt. William E. Broughton who spotted the mountain near the mouth of the Willamette River.
1863 - International Committee of Red Cross forms as result Geneva held conference (Nobel 1917, 1944, 1963)
1923 - Turkey becomes a republic following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. NATIONAL DAY
1991 - National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA's Galileo spacecraft makes its closest approach to 951 Gaspra, becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid.
2013 - Marmaray: Turkey opens a sea tunnel connecting Europe and Asia across the Bosphorus Strait in Istanbul.
