1579 Union of Utrecht signed, forming protestant Dutch Republic which became the cornerstone of the Netherlands today. I have been the hall where it was signed in Utrecht.
1849 Elizabeth Blackwell graduated from Geneva Medical College. She was the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States. After years of study, she had applied to more than a dozen of medical schools but only Geneva would accept a woman.
1924 Ramsay MacDonald formed the first Labour Government when Stagey Baldwin’s Conservatives lost a vote of no confidence in the House. The Labour Party had been contesting elections for twenty-four years.
1957 Wham-O toy company produced the first batch of the Frisbees. The Frisbee pie company in Connecticut was established in 1875. Yale students used to throw its empty pie tins, yelling Frisbee as they let fly. Boola! Boola! In 1948, Walter Frederick Morrison and his partner Warren Franscioni invented a plastic version of the disc called the “Flying Saucer” and then the “Pluto Platter” and so began the Frisbee as we know it today.
1960 The bathysphere “Trieste,” crewed by Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh, reached the bottom of Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean, the Earth’s deepest known point, about 11,000 meters or seven miles.
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