RedOctane released Guitar Hero for PlayStation 2 in North America.
2003
The popular Christmas comedy movie, Elf, was released in the USA.
2000
Hilary Clinton made history when she became the first-ever First Lady to win a seat for the Democrats in the Senate.
1989
New York City elected its first African American Mayor, David Dinkins.
1956
President Eisenhower won his second term with the most significant Republican win since Abraham Lincoln’s in 1860.
1912
The opera company The Deutsche Opernhaus (now know as Deutsche Oper Berlin) was founded. They opened with a performance of The Deutsche Opernhaus.
1893
Colorado became the second US state to give women the right to vote.
1875
The English explorer Verney Cameron became the first European to cross Africa from east to west.
1800
Paris barred women from legally wearing pants.
1786
The Stoughton Musical Society, the oldest musical society in the US, was formed.
1783
John Austin became the last person to be publicly hanged on London's Tyburn Gallows.
1775
Lord Dunmore promised freedom to every slave who enlisted into the British Army.
1665
The London Gazette published its first edition under the name The Oxford Gazette.
1631
Using Johannes Kepler's predictions, French scientist Pierre Gassendi became the first person to witness Mercury’s transit between the Earth and the Sun.
1492
The Ensisheim Meteorite – the oldest meteorite with an observed fall – struck the Earth in France.
