1932 the BBC British Broadcasting Corporation began transmitting overseas 1969 singer Frank Sinatra had his first session with Reprise Records

1271 Kublai Khan renamed the empire Yuan beginning the Yuan Dynasty of China 1957 the world first full scale nuclear plant began producing electricity in Pennsylvania

1903 the Wright Brothers made the first substantial aircraft flight at Kitty Hawk North Carolina the flight was piloted by Orville Wright 1986 MS Divine Thompson was the first in history to have a heart, lung and liver transplant in Cambridge England

1920 8.5 earthquake in Gansu Province in China killed 200,000 people 1944 Nazi Germany began a counter offensive that began the Battle of the Bulge in Belgium

1612 German Astronomer Simon Marius was the first to observe the Andromeda galaxy with a telescope 1973 the American Psychiatric Association declared homosexuality was not a mental illness

1503 Nostadamus was born in France 1911 Norwegian Roald Amundsen’s expedition were the first to reach the South Pole