1513 Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa crossed the Panama Isthmus he became the first European to see the Pacific Ocean 1906 Leonardo Torres Quevedo demonstrated at the Telekino at Bilbao in front a large crowd guiding about from shore it is considered the birth of the remote control

1869 Black Friday the Wall Street Panic after Gould and Fisk attempt to corner all the gold 1877 Battle of Shiroyama as the Japanese Imperial Army won a decisive victory over the Satsuma Rebellion

1889 Nintendo Koppai later the Nintendo Corporation founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi began producing and marketing the playing card game Hanafuda 1962 the first color TV series premieres ” The Jetsons ” by Hanna Barbera

1965 India and Pakistan cease fire began ending the Indo-Pakitani War 1994 ” Friends ” the tv show debuts on NBC-TV

1937 J R R Tolkien’s book ” The Hobbit ” is released in London 1949 the Chinese Communist leaders proclaimed the Peoples Republic of China

622 Islamic Prophet Muhammed/Abu Bakr arrived in Jathrib or today the city of Medina 1990 after the fall of the Berlin Wall East and West Germany ratified reunification