On this day in 1886, Peter "Black Prince" Jackson won the Australian Heavyweight Boxing Championship, becoming the first Black man to win a national boxing crown. 

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The last indigenous ruler of the Inca, Túpac Amaru, was executed by the Spanish on this day in 1572.

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On this day in 1889, Nintendo was founded in Japan as a playing card company.

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On this day in 1939, Junko Tabei, a Japanese mountaineer and the first woman to summit Mount Everest, was born. 

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On this day in 1897, the now-famous editorial answering Virginia O'Hanlon's question about whether Santa Claus exists was printed in the New York Sun. 

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The first ever Canne Film Festival began in Canne, France

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The first fully contained underground detonation took place at a research center in Nevada.

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On this day in 1895, Daniel David Palmer performed what's considered the first chiropractic adjustment. 

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On this day in 1925, Mexican artist Frida Kahlo was seriously injured in a bus accident that altered the course of her life. 

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On this day in 1979, the Strelzyk and Wetzel families escaped from East Germany to West Germany in a homemade hot air balloon.

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