On this day in the year 1724 of the common era (CE) Peter the Great of Russia founds the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg; one hundred and twenty-seven years later Northwestern University is chartered in Chicago, Illinois. Fifty-one years after that the Carnegie Institute is founded in Washington, D.C..
On this day in the year 1807 CE, London's Pall Mall becomes the first street to be lit by gaslight; forty-eight years later the first locomotive runs from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean on the Panama Railway.
In the year 1959 CE the Soviet Union defeats the United States in a basketball game, 62-37; it is the first ever loss for the United States in international competition. Ten years later, at the NFL draft, O.J. “The Juice” Simpson from the University of Southern California, is the first pick by the Buffalo Bills.
In 1985 CE the charity single "We Are the World" is recorded by the supergroup, USA for Africa; eighteen years later, in his State of the Union address, United States President George W. Bush announces (PEPFAR) the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, which will go on to save twenty-five million lives worldwide (as of Jan 2023).
In 1986 CE the Space Shuttle Challenger explodes seventy-three seconds after liftoff from Cape Canaveral, killing all seven crew members, including Christa McAuliffe, who was to be the first teacher in space.
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