Red_Dragon wrote:

I remember like it happened yesterday when I first installed Win95. That version kicked ass and it was that installation that brought to my attention the band Weezer. That Blue album blew me away.

But ya, Windows XP was even better.

1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows the United Nations Security Council reconnaissance photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles in Cuba.

1971 – The People's Republic of China replaces the Republic of China at the United Nations.

2001 – Microsoft releases Windows XP, which becomes one of Microsoft's most successful operating systems.

1861 – The first transcontinental telegraph line across the United States is completed.

1901 – Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.

1929 – "Black Thursday" on the New York Stock Exchange, the first day of the panic in the markets that contributes to the Great Depression.

1945 – The United Nations Charter comes into effect.

1946 – A camera on board the V-2 No. 13 rocket takes the first photograph of earth from outer space.

1947 – Famed animator Walt Disney testifies before the House Un-American Activities Committee, naming Disney employees he believes to be communists.

1975 – In Iceland, 90% of women take part in a national strike, refusing to work in protest of gender inequality.

1998 – Deep Space 1 is launched to explore the asteroid belt and test new spacecraft technologies.

2008 – "Bloody Friday" saw many of the world's stock exchanges experience the worst declines in their history, with drops of around 10% in most indices.

1850 – The first National Women's Rights Convention begins in Worcester, Massachusetts.

1941 – The Holocaust: Nazi Germany prohibits Jews from emigrating, including in its occupied territories.

1945 – Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signs a contract with the Brooklyn Dodger's minor league team, the Montreal Royals, breaking Major League Baseball's color barrier.

2001 – Apple Computer releases the iPod.

2137 BC – A solar eclipse occurs over China, one of the earliest recorded in human history,<1> reportedly resulting in the executions of two astronomers who failed to predict it.

1844 – The Millerites (followers of Baptist preacher William Miller) anticipate the end of the world in conjunction with the Second Advent of Christ. The following day becomes known as the Great Disappointment.

1879 – Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb; the bulb lasted 131⁄2 hours before burning out.

1883 – The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City opens with a performance of Charles Gounod's Faust.

2019 – Same-sex marriage is legalised, and abortion is decriminalised in Northern Ireland as a result of the Northern Ireland Assembly not being restored.

1921 – President Warren G. Harding delivers the first speech by a sitting U.S. president against lynching in the Deep South.

1940 – The first edition of the Ernest Hemingway novel For Whom the Bell Tolls is published.

1945 – In the 1945 French legislative election French women vote for the first time.

1959 – In New York City, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum opens to the public.

1967 – The National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam organizes a march of fifty thousand people from the Lincoln Memorial to the Pentagon.

1947 – Cold War: The House Un-American Activities Committee begins its investigation into Communist infiltration of the Hollywood film industry, resulting in a blacklist that prevents some from working in the industry for years.

1973 – Watergate scandal: "Saturday Night Massacre": United States President Richard Nixon fires U.S. Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus after they refuse to fire special prosecutor Archibald Cox, who is finally fired by Solicitor General Robert Bork.

2003 – The Sloan Great Wall, once the largest cosmic structures known to humanity, is discovered by students at Princeton University.

1900 – Max Planck discovers Planck's law of black-body radiation.

1943 – Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University.

1953 – Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 is published.

1973 – President Nixon rejects an Appeals Court decision that he turn over the Watergate tapes.

2003 – Mother Teresa is beatified by Pope John Paul II.

1540 – Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto's forces destroy the fortified town of Mabila in present-day Alabama, killing Tuskaloosa.

1648 – Boston shoemakers form the first American labor organization.

1851 – Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley of London.

1922 – The British Broadcasting Company (later Corporation) is founded by a consortium, to establish a nationwide network of radio transmitters to provide a national broadcasting service.

1929 – The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council overrules the Supreme Court of Canada in Edwards v. Canada when it declares that women are considered "Persons" under Canadian law.

1945 – The USSR's nuclear program receives plans for the United States plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

1954 – Texas Instruments announces the Regency TR-1, the first mass-produced transistor radio.

1967 – The Soviet probe Venera 4 reaches Venus and becomes the first spacecraft to measure the atmosphere of another planet.

1604 – Kepler's Supernova is observed in the constellation of Ophiuchus.

1814 – Eight people die in the London Beer Flood.

1907 – Marconi begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service.

1933 – Albert Einstein flees Nazi Germany and moves to the United States.

1956 – The first commercial nuclear power station is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in Sellafield, England.

1979 – Mother Teresa is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

1979 – The Department of Education Organization Act creates the U.S. Department of Education.

1859 – Abolitionist John Brown and his supporters launch a raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia).

1916 – Margaret Sanger opens the first family planning clinic in the United States.

1919 – Adolf Hitler delivers his first public address at a meeting of the German Workers' Party.

1964 – China detonates its first nuclear weapon.

1968 – Tommie Smith and John Carlos are ejected from the US Olympic team for participating in the Olympics Black Power salute.

1975 – Three-year-old Rahima Banu, from Bangladesh, is the last known case of naturally occurring smallpox.

1783 – The Montgolfier brothers' hot air balloon makes the first human ascent, piloted by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier.

1956 – FORTRAN, the first modern computer language, is first shared with the coding community.

1966 – The Black Panther Party is created by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale.

1990 – Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to lessen Cold War tensions and open up his nation.

1991 – The "Oh-My-God particle", an ultra-high-energy cosmic ray measured at 40,000,000 times that of the highest energy protons produced in a particle accelerator, is observed at the University of Utah HiRes observatory in Dugway Proving Ground, Utah.

1997 – The Cassini probe launches from Cape Canaveral on its way to Saturn.

2008 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes down 733.08 points, or 7.87%, the second worst percentage drop in the Dow's history.

2016 – One hundred and ninety-seven nations amend the Montreal Protocol to include a phase-out of hydrofluorocarbons.

1773 – The first recorded ministry of education, the Commission of National Education, is formed in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

1888 – Louis Le Prince films the first motion picture, Roundhay Garden Scene.

1908 – The Chicago Cubs defeat the Detroit Tigers, 2–0, clinching the 1908 World Series; this would be their last until winning the 2016 World Series.

1962 – The Cuban Missile Crisis begins when an American reconnaissance aircraft takes photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles being installed in Cuba.

1964 – Martin Luther King Jr. receives the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolence.

1968 – Apollo program: The first live television broadcast by American astronauts in orbit is performed by the Apollo 7 crew.

1979 – The first National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights draws approximately 100,000 people.

1982 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan proclaims a war on drugs.

2003 – The Steve Bartman Incident takes place at Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois.

2023 – Australians vote to reject a constitutional amendment that would have established an Indigenous Voice to Parliament.