1348 - Friuli earthquake of 1348; a strong earthquake strikes the South Alpine region of Friuli in modern Italy, causing considerable damage to buildings as far away as Rome.
1554 - Founding of São Paulo city, Brazil.
1755 - Founding of the Moscow State University Lomonosv
1765 - Port Egmont, the first British settlement in the Falkland Islands at the southern tip of South America, is founded.
1915 - Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
1999 - Armenia, Colombia earthquake; a magnitude 6.0 earthquake hits western Colombia killing at least 1,000.
