1493 – Explorer Christopher Columbus arrives back in Lisbon, Portugal, aboard his ship Niña from his voyage to what is now The Bahamas and other islands in the Caribbean.
1628 – The Massachusetts Bay Colony is granted a Royal charter.
1792 – Samuel Slocum born, inventor of a machine for the production of wrought iron nails
1882 – Britain’s first electric trams run in east London.
1906 – Charles Rudolph Walgreen, Jr. born, founder of the Walgreen drug store and American businessman
1925 – Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to have his inauguration broadcast on radio.
2007 – Estonian parliamentary election, 2007: Approximately 30,000 voters take advantage of electronic voting in Estonia, the world’s first nationwide voting where part of the votecasting is allowed in the form of remote electronic voting via the Internet.
