557 - Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, is significantly damaged by a 6.4 magnitude earthquake
1782 - The Montgolfier brother's balloon took off for the first time.
1819 - Alabama becomes the 22nd U.S. state.
1911 - 1911 - South Pole 1st reached, by Norwegian Roald Amundsen .
1958 - The Pole of Relative Inaccessibility; the 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition becomes the first expedition to reach The Pole of Relative Inaccessibility in the Antarctic.
1962 - Mariner 2 unmanned space mission, becomes the first spacecraft to fly by Venus.
