1956 the US Supreme Court ruled race separation on buses in Alabama was unconstitutional allowing blacks to ride the bus 1980 the US spacecraft Voyager 1 sent back the very first close up photograph picture of the planet Saturn

1927 Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Soviet Communist Party opening the door for Joseph Stalin to gain complete power 2018 Stan Lee who created the majority of the Marvel comic characters died

1675 German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz demonstrated internal calculus for the first time how to find area under is graph of y=f(x) function 1909 Construction began of the US Naval Base at Pearl Harbor Hawaii decades later it was attacked by the Japanese bringing America into World War 2

1885 the German engineer Gottlieb Daimler unveiled the worlds first motorcycle 1989 the Germans began to demolish the Berlin Wall separating East and West Berlin

1799 Napoleon Bonaparte became the dictator of France with the title of the First Consul 2020 Drugmakers BioNTech and Pfizer announced their Covid 19 vaccines were 90% effective from their test results of 44,000 people

392 The Roman Emperor Theodosius declared the Christian religion as the state religion 2016 Donald J Trump was elected President of the United States beating out the first woman to run for President Hillary R Clinton she had 3 million more votes then him and still lost