1487 - The ten-year-old Lambert Simnel is crowned in Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin, Ireland with the name of Edward VI in a bid to threaten King Henry VII's reign

1595 - Nomenclature of Leiden University Library appears, the first printed catalog of an institutional library

1689 - The English Parliament passes the Act of Toleration protecting Protestants. Roman Catholics are intentionally excluded

1738 - Methodist Church is established

1815 - George Evans discovers Lachlan River, Australia

1830 - Mary Had a Little Lamb by Sarah Josepha Hale is published

1844 - Samuel Morse sends the message "What hath God wrought" (a biblical quotation) from the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the United States Capitol to his assistant, Alfred Vail, in Baltimore, Maryland to inaugurate the first telegraph line

1915 - Thomas Edison invents telescribe to record telephone conversations

1940 - Igor Sikorsky performs the first successful single-rotor helicopter flight

1958 - United Press International is formed through a merger of the United Press and the International News Service

1970 - Drilling of the Kola Superdeep Borehole, USSR is begun

2004 - Communications in North Korea: North Korea bans mobile phones.