
| Anders Celsius, took temperatures | |
| Charles A. Beard, American historian | |
| Chaim Weizmann, Israeli statesman | |
| Pope Urban II preaches for the First Crusade | |
| the first Advent Sunday | |
| Alfred Nobel establishes the Nobel Prize | |
| New York's Penn Station opens - world's largest railway terminal | |
| first rocket to intercept an airplane, White Sands, NM | |
| Soviet Mars 2, is the first to crash land on Mars. | |
| Space shuttle Atlantis carries the first Mexican astronaut. | |
By Scott Labrecque version 9.4.0.0