Milestones 19 - HotShot Facts

1799 AD

Humphrey Davy discovers nitrous oxide (laughing gas).

First settled societies in the Mesopotamia region.

President Nixon (U.S.) is forced to resign after Watergate scandal.

Charles Lindbergh is first man to fly solo across the Atlantic ocean.

A young boy named Tutankhamun succeeds Akhenaten. He restores the nation to worshiping the old Egyptian gods.

Henry Ford mass-produces the Model T.

Alaska is purchased from Russia by the United States.

First skyscraper built in Chicago (ten stories).

Barometer invented by Evangelista Torricelli.

Missionaries colonize New Zealand.

Philip IV becomes the next King of Spain.

Sewing machine invented by Elias Howe.