Today:
1325 – Alfonso IV became King of Portugal, succeeding his father, King Denis.
1558 – The French forces captured Calais, the last English stronghold on the mainland of France.
1608 – Fire destroyed Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in America.
1610 – Galileo Galilei discovered the first three moons of Jupiter: Io, Europa, and Ganymede.
1782 – The first American commercial bank, the Bank of North America, opened in Philadelphia.
1785 – Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries completed the first successful balloon flight across the English Channel.
1894 – W.K. Dickson received a patent for motion picture film.
1927 – The first transatlantic telephone service was inaugurated between New York and London.
1953 – President Harry Truman announced the United States had developed the hydrogen bomb.
1989 – Akihito was sworn in as Emperor of Japan, succeeding his father, Emperor Hirohito.
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