On this day in the year 1747 of the common era (CE), astronomer James Bradley presents his discovery of the wobbling motion of the Earth’s axis to the Royal Society in London, England; two hundred and forty-four years later, the first of twenty-four satellites constituting the Global Positioning System, is placed in orbit and Skyphone opens. One year after that, in 1990 CE, Voyager I takes a photograph of the entire solar system, the images transmitted in real-time with earth seen through its lens as a pale-blue-dot; ten years later, spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker enters orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, it is the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid.
On this day in the year 1803 CE, United States Supreme Court Chief Justice, John Marshall declares that any act of the U.S. Congress that conflicts with the Constitution is void, the process constitutional process of emendation must be followed to change the constitution itself.
On this day in 1849 CE, James Knox Polk becomes the first serving United States President to have his photograph taken, sitting for Mathew Brady in New York City, New York; six years later the Texas is linked by telegraph to the rest of the United States with the completion of a connection between New Orleans, Louisiana and Marshall, Texas. Four years after that, in 1859 CE, Oregon is admitted to the Union, becoming the nation’s thirty-third state; fifty-three years later Arizona becomes the forty-eighth.
In 1862 CE, the U.S.S. Galena is launched from Groton, Connecticut, it is the first iron-clad warship in the United States Navy; fifty years later the first submarines with diesel engines are commissioned from the same shipyard.
In 1867 CE Morehouse College organizes, Augusta Georgia; three years later Esther Morris is appointed the first female Justice of the Peace in the United States, after the previous justice, R.S. Barr, resigned to protest the passage of the Wyoming Territory's “women's suffrage amendment” in 1869, her jurisdiction is in South Pass City, Wyoming; also on this day, Seraph Young becomes the first woman to legally vote in the United States, in Utah two days after the people of Utah passed a suffrage law of their own. Fifty years later, the League of Women Voters forms in Chicago, Illinois; thirty years after that, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference organizes in New Orleans with Martin Luther King Jr. as its president
In 1919 CE the United Parcel Service (UPS) is formed; two years later, the Little Review (a publishing house) faces obscenity charges for publishing Ulysses, by James Joyce in New York, New York. Forty-nine years after that in 1970 CE, the first "micro-on-a-chip" or “microchip” is patented by Texas Instruments.; thirty-five years later Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim found the on-line video-sharing site YouTube in San Mateo, California.
In 1929 CE the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre takes place in Chicago; seven gangsters are killed at the behest of mafioso, Alfonse Capone; twenty years later the first session of the Kneset (the Israeli Parliament) is held in Jerusalem, Israel. Twenty-two years after that, United States president Richard Nixon installs a secret recording system in the White House.
In 1931 CE, Dracula starring Bela Lugosi is released to theatres in the United States; twenty years later Sugar Ray Robinson defeats Jake LaMotta to take the middleweight boxing, championship title.
In 1967 CE Aretha Franklin records her single Respect at Atlantic Studio in New York. New York; her rendition of Otis Redding's tune becomes the Billboard Song of the Year; eighteen years later, Whitney Houston’s self-titled debut album is released, winning the Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female, and Billboard’s Album of Year.
In 1976 CE the United States performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
In 1979 CE, Adolph Dubs, the American ambassador to Afghanistan is taken hostage and later killed in Kabul during a gunfight between his kidnappers and the police; twenty years later the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini issues a fatwa calling for the death of author Salman Rushdie and his publishers due to his novel Satanic Verses, and a bounty is placed on his head.
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