1. In 1066, William the Conqueror was crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey.

2. In 1412, Joan of Arc was born.

3. In 1547, Ivan the Terrible was crowned Tsar of Russia.

4. In 1759, the British captured the French colony of Senegal.

5. In 1781, the Continental Army defeated the British in the Battle of Cowpens during the American Revolutionary War.

6. In 1838, Samuel Morse demonstrated his telegraph system for the first time.

7. In 1850, California was admitted as the 31st state of the United States.

8. In 1878, Thomas Edison received a patent for his phonograph.

9. In 1912, Arizona was admitted as the 48th state of the United States.

10. In 1919, The Big Four (Woodrow Wilson, David Lloyd George, Georges Clemenceau, and Vittorio Emanuele Orlando) began their first meeting at the Paris Peace Conference.

11. In 1929, The first Academy Awards ceremony was announced.

12. In 1935, Amelia Earhart became the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to the mainland United States.

13. In 1941, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered his Four Freedoms speech.

14. In 1950, the United Kingdom recognized the People's Republic of China.

15. In 1957, The United States launched its first artificial satellite, Explorer I.

16. In 1965, Winston Churchill had his last public appearance.

17. In 1971, The New York Times begins publishing the Pentagon Papers.

18. In 1981, Anwar Sadat was posthumously awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

19. In 1994, Yitzhak Rabin and Yasir Arafat met for the first time in Morocco.

20. In 2005, SpaceX launched its first successful flight of the Falcon 1 rocket.