1558: Elizabeth I, aged 25, ascends the English throne upon the death of her half-sister, Queen Mary I
1831: Ecuador and Venezuela separate from Gran 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 the 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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