1884 Greenwich in London became established as the universal time meridian of longitude 1966 the Jimi Hendrix Experience played for the first time in Evreux, Normandy, France with Jimi Hendrix on guitar Noel Redding on bass guitar and Mitch Mitchell on drums

1279 Nichiren a Japanese Buddist monk founder of Nichiren Buddhism inscribed the Dai-Gohonzon 1999 the Day of 6 Billion as the day the 6 billionth human being to live was born

1138 an earthquake in Aleppo Syria killed 230,000 people 1975 Saturday Night Live premiered on NBC TV from New York City created by Lorne Michaels with George Carlin as the host

1899 African-American Issac R Johnson patents the bicycle frame 1954 Ho Chi Minh entered Hanoi following the withdrawal of French troops

1000 Leif Ericson discovers North America at Vinland what is assumed to be Canada he would be the first European to land on North America 1941 US President Franklin D Roosevelt approved the Manhattan Project the would begin construction of the nuclear bombs the would devastate Japan

1818 Jack Broughton designed padded gloves the first ever used in a competitive boxing match in France 1971 John Lennon released the song Imagine it became an instant hit and remains so with many