1520-Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan begins crossing the Pacific Ocean
1814-The Times of London is first printed by automatic, steam-powered presses built by German inventors Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Friedrich Bauer, making newspapers available to a mass audience
1893-New Zealand women vote for the first time in a national election [1]
1919-American-born Lady Nancy Astor is elected as the first female member of the British House of Commons (to take her seat)
1967-First radio pulsars detected by British postgraduate Jocelyn Bell Burnell and her supervisor Antony Hewish at Cambridge University