1772: Captain James Cook begins his second voyage to the South Seas aboard HMS Resolution to search for Terra Australis (Southern continent)

1832: Source of Mississippi River discovered by American geographer Henry Schoolcraft

1835: Swedish-American inventor John Ericsson files for a patent for his screw propeller design

1870: King Wilhelm I of Prussia sends the “Emser Depeche (Ems Telegram)” to Otto von Bismarck who publishes an edited version to purposely offend the French government precipitating the Franco-German War

1966: A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada founds the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (Hare Krishna movement) in New York City

Source: Onthisday.com