1558: Elizabeth I aged 25, ascends the English throne upon death of her half sister, Queen “Bloody” Mary
1800: Congress holds its 1st session in Washington, D.C. in an incomplete Capitol Building
1831: Ecuador and Venezuela separated from Greater Colombia
1855: David Livingstone becomes the first European to see Victoria Falls, in what is now Zambia and Zimbabwe
1869: Suez Canal in Egypt opens, linking Mediterranean and Red seas
1922: The last sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed VI, is expelled to Malta on a British warship
1970: Douglas Engelbart receives the patent for the first computer mouse
Source: Onthisday.com
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