1909 inventor Leo Baekeland patented the first thermo set plastic Bakelite beginning the plastics industry 1941 the Japanese Imperial Navy attacked the US Naval Fleet in Pearl Harbor Hawaii killing 2403 people

1856 the 13th amendment of the US Constitution eliminated or abolished slavery 2006 NASA photographs revealed the presence of liquid water on Mars

1901 Walt Disney was born creator of Disneyland 1933 Prohibition ends in the US when the 21st amendment ratified the 18th amendment of the constitution once again allowing alcohol sales

1927 Duke Ellington opened at the Cotton Club in Harlem New York 1952 Killer fog in London England began using the term Smog for the first time

1961 Dutchman Anton Geesink became the first non-Japanese judo world champion 1967 the 1st human heart transplant was performed in South Africa by Dr Christiaan Barnard on Luis Washkansky

1804 General Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned Emperor of the French at the Notre Dame de Paris officiated by Pope Pius VII1929 the first skull of Peking man was discovered outside Peking China later dated at 750,000 years old 1982 the first permanent heart was placed in Barney Clark in Utah he lived for 112 days after