1822 – French Scientist Jean–François Champollion publishes the first translation of the Rosetta Stone hieroglyphs.
1825 – First use of railways as a means of public transport.
1955 – UN General Assembly holds a session on Algeria and the French delegation withdraws.
1959 – A typhoon strikes Japanese Island of Honshu, leaving over 5000 persons dead.
1997 – Egyptian Mohammad el-Baradei was elected as Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
1998 – Opening of Google Company.
1925 – British biologist and Nobel-Laureate Sir Robert Edwards was born.
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