1494 - Christopher Columbus arrived on the coast of Jamaica.
1634 - Johan van Walbeeck, Dutch cartographer and Navigator goes to Zapdna India.
1783 - Astronomer Herschel noticed a red light near the crater Aristarchus on the moon.
1903 - In the village of Banica (Ser) was killed Gotse Delchev, one of the biggest Macedonian revolutionaries.
1904 - US begins building the Panama Canal.
1910 - Founded the city Tel Aviv.
1927 - Hawthorne Charles Gray realized the first balloon flight.
1993 - The management of PTT Macedonia was admitted to the membership of the International Union of Telecommunications.

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

1497 - Expedition John Cabot went from Bristol looking for new land across the Atlantic.
1780 - William Herschel discovers the first binary star, Xi Ursae Majoris.
1885 - King Leopold II of Belgium form the state of Congo.
1957 - Born Domonic L Pudwill Gorie, American astronaut.
1519 - Leonardo da Vinci died.

INTERNATIONAL DAY OF LABOR
1006 - Chinese and Egyptians observe supernova (exploding star) in constellation Lupus.
1707 - England, Wales and Scotland form the United Kingdom of Great Britain
1852 - Introduced in use Philippine Peso.
1890 - From this year we organize one-day demonstrations around the world in order to mark the anniversary of the protests in Chicago that killed seven policemen and four protesters.
1960 - Indian state of Bombay separates the states of Gujarat and Maharashtra.
1961 - Fidel Castro announces that there will be no elections in Cuba.
1963 - The first American to conquer Mount Everest.
1971 - Amtrak train in the United States is playing in traffic.

1606 - Created a first flag of Great Britain.
1945 - Died US President Franklin D. Roosevelt 63 years of age.
1961 - Soviet astronomer Yuri Gagarin Alekseyevich (Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin) with Vostok 1 was the first person in the Earth's orbit.
1979 - Spacecraft Soyuz 33 returned to Earth.
1985 - Launched a spaceship Discovery 4 of 16 space mission.
1856 - Born William M Conway, English explorer (Spitzbergen)

WORLD DAY OF Cosmonauts