627: Battle of Nineveh: Byzantine Emperor Heraclius defeats Sassanid forces during the Byzantine-Sassanid War
Marconi with his telegraphic box of tricksMarconi’s Dream: Telegraphy Without Wires

1901: Guglielmo Marconi sends the first transatlantic radio signal, from Poldhu in Cornwall to Newfoundland, Canada

1925: Last Qajar Shah of Iran is deposed; Reza Shah Pahlavi takes over

1946: United Nations accepts six Manhattan blocks as a gift from John D. Rockefeller Jr.

1964: Kenya becomes an independent republic with Jomo Kenyatta as its first President

2000: US Supreme Court releases its 5-4 decision in Bush v. Gore, settling the recount dispute in Florida’s 2000 presidential election in George W. Bush’s favor and thus handing him the presidency over Al Gore

2015: COP21 climate change summit in Paris reaches a deal between 195 countries to limit the rise in the global average temperature to less than 2°C above pre-industrial levels

2019: British General Election is won by Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party in a landslide victory with an 80-seat majority, while the Scottish National Party wins 48 of 59 seats in Scotland

Source: Onthisday.com