• 1799 – French soldiers uncovered the Rosetta Stone in Fort Julien, near the Egyptian port city of Rashid.
• 1916 – William Boeing incorporated the Pacific Aero Products
Company, which was later renamed Boeing.
• 1922 – Japanese Communist Party is established in Japan.
• 1933 – Birth Day of M. T. Vasudevan Nair, Indian author and screenwriter
• 1935 – Birth Day of Thilakan, Indian actor (Death On : 2012)
• 2003 – AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape. The Mozilla
Foundation is established on the same day.
• 2006 – Twitter is launched, becoming one of the largest
social media platforms in the world.