BoyGirlBoyGirl Timeline
| 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. | |