NASA / Mickey Mouse / Lady Diana

-1609

Samuel de Champlain shot and killed two Iroquois chiefs at Ticonderoga, New York, which initiated French-Iroquois conflicts lasting for the next 150 years.

-1848

The Tipperary Revolt was an unsuccessful nationalist rebellion against British rule during the Irish Potato Famine.

-1905

US Secretary of War William Howard Taft makes a secret agreement with Japanese Prime Minister Katsura, agreeing to Japanese free rein in Korea in return for non-interference with the US in the Philippines.

-1921

Adolf Hitler became the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi Party).

-1928

The first test footage was created for Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie", which featured Mickey Mouse.

-1954

"The Fellowship of the Ring," the first book in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings trilogy, comes out. Even though the book is a huge success, it'll be 50 years before there's a movie.

-1958

The U.S. Congress establishes the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), a civilian agency responsible for coordinating America's space activities.

-1973

Led Zeppelin had more than $200,000 in cash stolen from a safe deposit box at the New York Hilton hotel.

-1981

The marriage of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer, the heir to the British throne, is watched by nearly one billion people in 74 countries.