Edward Gibbon wrote and I paraphrase: I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by looking into history.

Let us begin:

1553 Mary I also known as Bloody Mary replaces Fifteen-year-old Lady Jane Grey as Queen of England. Also known as Bloody Mary due to her brutal persecution of Protestants, Mary I was the only child of Catherine of Aragon and Henry III.

1799 - The Rosetta Stone, a tablet with hieroglyphic translations into Greek, was found in Egypt.

1985 Christa McAuliffe of New Hampshire was chosen to be the first schoolteacher to ride aboard the space shuttle. She died with six others when the Challenger exploded the following year.