1839 - The most damaging storm in 300 years sweeps across Ireland , damaging or destroying more than 20% of the houses in Dublin.
1912 - New Mexico is admitted as the 47th U.S. state.
1912 - German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift.
1912 - Alfred Wegener, geophysicist and meteorologist, presents his controversial theory of continental drift in a lecture at a the Geological Association (Geologischen Vereinigung) at the Senckenberg-Museum, Frankfurt.
1968 - Surveyor 7 (last of series) launched by US for soft-landing on Moon
