Timeline
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| 2600, BCE |
Flush toilets first used by the Indus Valley Civilization, modern-day Pakistan. |
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| 952, BCE |
Shoshenq I becomes pharaoh of Egypt and moves his royal residence to the city of Per-Bast, a center for the worship of the cat goddess Bastet. |
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| ca. 69 |
Book of Revelation written by St. John the Apostle while exiled to the Greek island of Patmos. |
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| 1020 |
Persian physician Ibn Sina (Latinized name: Avicenna) publishes "The Canon of Medicine," a medical textbook that would remain in use by Muslim and European universities until the 17th century. |
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| 1450 |
The man-eating wolves of Paris are slaughtered before the gates of Notre Dame cathedral. |
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| 1786 |
The Catacombs of Paris are created when the municipal government removes the corpses of approximately six million dead from its crowded cemeteries and re-deposits them in the empty quarries beneath the city. |
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| 1862 |
Alexander Parkes publicly demonstrates the first man-made plastic at the great International Exhibit, London, England |
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| 1870 |
Gustave Courbet refuses the Cross of the Legion of Honor from French emperor Napoleon III. |
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| 1879 |
The Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway establishes passenger rail service between Arkansas City and Newton, Kansas, connecting to Chicago, Illinois. |
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| 1884 |
Edward Blencowe Gould, British Counsul-General in Bangkok, arrives in London with a gift for his sister, a pair of Siamese cats, a breed never before seen outside of Asia. |
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| 1885 |
Death of Victor Hugo. |
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| 1898 |
Frank Peer Beale invents the game of paddle tennis to help children learn to play tennis. |
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| 1905 |
The Willows Maternity Sanitarium founded by Edwin and Cora May Haworth, Kansas City, MO. Over the course of 64 years of operation, between 25,000 - 35,000 children will be delivered there. |
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| 1911 |
Boys' Life magazine published, Somerville, MA. |
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| 1921 |
James Biggs paints his walking stick white, Bristol, UK. |
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| 1923 |
The Brooklyn Museum purchases The Mansard Roof, a watercolor by Edward Hopper, for $100. |
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| 1936 |
Bartender Danny Negrete presents his brother David with a wedding present: a cocktail combining Triple Sec, tequila, and Mexican lime juice. He names it the "margarita," after the bride-to-be. |
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| 1942 |
Tweety Bird makes his first on-screen appearance in the Warner Brothers cartoon "A Tale of Two Kitties." |
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| 1960 |
Peter Sellers and Sophia Loren record the comic song "Bangers and Mash." |
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| 1962 |
The Dayton Company opens its first Target discount store, Roseville, MN |
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| 1968 |
The movie musical "Oliver!" opens in London. It will go on to win 5 Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director for Carol Reed. |
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| 1979 |
Pope John Paul II confers a peace medal on Sam Cohen for his invention of the neutron bomb. |
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| 1985 |
"The Golden Girls" premieres on NBC-TV. |
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| 1999 |
Dr. Jack Kevorkian is charged with first-degree homicide and the delivery of a controlled substance after administering a lethal injection to Thomas Youk, a 52-year-old man in the final stages of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's Disease). |
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| 2001 |
Brian Shaw assembles a teal-colored formica countertop, thus completing the remodeling of the Shaw kitchen, which included the relocation of the sink and the installation of a dishwasher. |
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| 2006 |
Susan Karp receives a copy of "Ever Since I Had My Baby: Understanding, Treating, and Preventing the Most Common Physical After Effects of Pregnancy and Childbirth" as a gift from her father-in-law. |
