On this day in history
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1184BC: The Greeks enter Troy using the Trojan Horse.
1626: Samuel de Champlain sails on his 11th voyage to Canada.
1704: The first successful newspaper, the Boston News-Letter, is formed.
1779: Montreal fur trading partners found the North West Company as a formal stock trading company.
1895: Parliament decides not to bring in prohibition.
1800: The United States Library of Congress is established by President John Adams
1923: The paper The Ego and the Id by Sigmund Freud is published, outlining Freud's theories of the id, ego and super-ego.
1990: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched from the Space Shuttle Discovery.
