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1990: Hubble Space Telescope sent into orbit.The Hubble Space Telescope, a sophisticated optical observatory built in the United States under the supervision of NASA, was placed into operation this day in 1990 by the crew of the space shuttle Discovery.More events on this day1926:Giacomo Puccini's uncompleted opera Turandot was performed posthumously at La Scala under the direction of Arturo Toscanini. |
1915:The Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) landed at Gallipoli in western Turkey during the Dardanelles Campaign of World War I. |
1874:Guglielmo Marconi, an Italian physicist who invented a successful system of radio telegraphy (1896) and received the Nobel Prize for Physics (1909), was born. |
1809:The Treaty of Amritsar, which settled Indo-Sikh relations for a generation, was concluded between Charles T. Metcalfe, representing the British East India Company, and Ranjit Singh, head of the Sikh kingdom of Punjab. |
1792:The first guillotine was erected, on the Place de Grève in Paris, to execute a highwayman. |
1781:Petersburg, Virginia, was captured by British troops under William Phillips and Benedict Arnold during the American Revolution. |
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