1756: Britain declared war against France.
1865: Celebration of World Telecommunication Day started.
1970: Thor Heyerdahl started the journey from Morocco and crossed the Atlantic Ocean in 57 days.
1975: Japanese woman Mrs. Junko Taibei became the first woman to climb Mount Everest.
1987: Sunil Gavaskar retired from Test cricket.
2002: The dead body of American journalist Daniel Pearl was recovered from the cemetery in Pakistan.
1749: Edward Jenner, the famous physician, and inventor of the 'smallpox' vaccine, was born.