1581 Francis Drake knighted by Queen Elizabeth I aboard Golden Hind at Deptford.
1949 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) treaty signed in Washington DC.
1973 World Trade Center, then the world's tallest building, opens in New York (110 stories).
1975 Microsoft is founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800.
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