1365 - University of Vienna founded
1609 - Bermuda becomes an English colony
1642 - Abel Tasman is 1st European in New Zealand
1664 - New Jersey becomes an English colony
1737 - Galileo's body moved to Church of Santa Croce in Florence, Italy
1928 - In California, the Saint Francis Dam fails; the resulting floods kill over 600 people.
2011 - Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami; A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant melts and explodes and releases radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after Japan's earthquake.
