2372 results for “World War” — type: events (266 ms)
Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail single-handedly around the world, sets sail from Boston, Massachusetts aboard the sloop Spray.
The Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization enters into force.
SS Ideal X, the world's first successful container ship, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey, for Houston, Texas.
Construction begins on the Freedom Tower (later renamed One World Trade Center) in New York City.
Expo 67 officially opens in Montreal, Quebec, Canada with a large opening ceremony broadcast around the world. It opens to the public the next day.
CERN announces World Wide Web protocols will be free.
Hong Kong Police Force, the world's second modern police force and Asia's first, is established.
First ascent of Shishapangma, the fourteenth highest mountain in the world and the lowest of the Eight-thousanders.
The 108-story Sears Tower in Chicago is topped out at 1,451 feet (442 m) as the world's tallest building.
In the papal bull Inter caetera, Pope Alexander VI divides the New World between Spain and Portugal along the Line of Demarcation.
The World Health Organization declares the end of the COVID-19 pandemic as a global health emergency.
On his second voyage to the New World, Christopher Columbus sights Jamaica, landing at Discovery Bay and declares Jamaica the property of the Spanish crown.
The world's oldest surviving clipper ship, the City of Adelaide is launched by William Pile, Hay and Co. in Sunderland, England, for transporting passengers and goods between Britain and Australia.
World premiere of Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in Vienna, Austria. The performance is conducted by Michael Umlauf under the composer's supervision.
The World Health Organization confirms the eradication of smallpox.
One World Trade Center becomes the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere.
Amerigo Vespucci allegedly leaves Cádiz for his first voyage to the New World.
Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin.
�Carlin becomes the first (and only) person to circumnavigate the world by amphibious vehicle, having travelled over 17,000 kilometres (11,000 mi) by sea and 62,000 kilometres (39,000 mi) by land duri�