1672: Isaac Newton was elected to the Royal Society. 1787: The first two moons of Uranus, Titania & Oberon, were discovered by William Herschel, six years after he had discovered the planet itself. 1872: George Pierce, inventor of the quartz crystal based Peirce oscillator, was born. 1922: Insulin was first used to treat diabetes. 1935: American aviator Amelia Earhart began a trip from Honolulu to Oakland, CA, becoming the first woman to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean (go to article). 1954: George Cowling became the BBC's first television weatherman. 1991: Nobel physicist Carl Anderson, co-founder of the positron, or positive electron, the first known particle of antimatter, died. 2000: The first leg of the China-US Cable Network, the first undersea fiber optic cable network to transfer voice, data, and video traffic directly between the U.S. and China, went into service.