1 / 91836 | Iconic author Ralph Waldo Emerson published one of his most influential essays "Nature" in the US. (Image: Shutterstock)
2 / 91839 | English scientist and astronomer John Herschel took the first-ever glass plate photograph. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
3 / 91888 | The famous Easter Island / Rapa Nui (famous for the monolithic human figures) in the Pacific was annexed by Chile. (Image: Shutterstock)
4 / 91948 | The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) was proclaimed, with the help of the USSR. (Image: Shutterstock)
5 / 91960 | Pakistan’s hockey team ends India's run of 6 consecutive Olympic field hockey gold medals with a 1-0 win at the Rome Games. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
6 / 91975 | NASA’s Viking 2 Mars probe was launched. (Image: NASA)
7 / 91976 | Marxist revolutionary Mao Zedong died at the age of 82. He emerged as the undisputed Chinese Communist Party leader after the Long March in 1934-35 and dominated China in the period after the communist takeover in 1949. (Image: Shutterstock)
8 / 92012 | Serena Williams won her fourth US Open title beating Victoria Azarenka of Belarus. (Image: Shutterstock)
9 / 92019 | Poet John Milton's original copy of Shakespeare's First Folio of 1623 was discovered to be survived with his annotations. Potentially, the world's most important modern literary discovery. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
