1374 - Solar Eclipse (2 minutes and 7 seconds) is observed in Ugarit by Mesopotamian astronomers.
1715 - Edmund Halley (Edmund Halley - English astronomer, after whom is named Halley's Comet) monitors the complete blackout called "Baily's Beads".
1802 - Washington was declared a city.
1830 - The first train of the steam plant is playing regular traffic.
1917 - Born Kiro Gligorov, former Macedonian president.
1945 - National Government of the Federal Democratic Macedonia, upon the proposal of the Commission for language and spelling at the Ministry of Education adopted a decision to establish the Macedonian alphabet.
1952 - The first landing of a plane at the geographic North Pole.
WORLD DAY OF PRESS
