1982 - NASA names Sally Ride to be the first female astronaut
1770 - Captain James Cook becomes the first Westerner to reach Australia.
1910 - Halley's Comet was first seen with the naked eye.
1919-Leslie Irwin of America made the first jump with a parachute.
1950 - Syama Prasad Mukherjee became the first cabinet minister to resign.
1975 - The first Indian satellite Aryabhatta was launched with the help of the then Soviet Russia.
2003-China's female weightlifter Bang Ming Chian made a world record.
2006 - The first astronaut Neil Armstrong was presented with the moon piece brought him.