On this day in 1941, a German submarine made the first attack against a United States ship, the USS Greer.
On this day in 1951, the first live transcontinental television broadcast took place in San Francisco, from the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference.
On this day in 1998, Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University.
And on this day in 2010, a 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck the South Island of New Zealand at 4:35 am, causing widespread damage and several power outages.