• 1535 – The first complete English-language Bible (the
Coverdale Bible) is printed, with translations by William Tyndale and Myles
Coverdale.
• 1795 – Napoleon Bonaparte first rises to national prominence
by suppressing armed counter-revolutionary rioters threatening the National
Convention.
• 1853 – The Ottoman Empire declares war on the Russian
Empire.
• 1903 – John Vincent Atanasoff, American physicist and
academic, invented the Atanasoff–Berry computer (d. 1995)
• 1957 – Space Race: Launch of Sputnik 1, the first artificial
satellite to orbit the Earth.
• 1985 – The Free Software Foundation is founded in
Massachusetts, United States.
• 2004 – SpaceShipOne wins Ansari X Prize for private
spaceflight, by being the first private craft to fly into space.
• 2006 – Wikileaks is launched by Julian Assange.
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