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2001 – Same-sex marriage becomes legal in the Netherlands, the first contemporary country to allow it. 1976 - Apple Inc. is founded by college dropouts Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. 1972 - President Nixon orders mining of North Vietnam ports and heavy bombing of Hanoi-Haiphong area. 1970 - President Nixon signs laws banning cigarette ads on TV and radio 1954 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorizes the creation of the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado. 1935 - First metal radio tube 1924 - Adolf Hitler is sentenced to 5 years imprisonment for his participation in the "Beer Hall Putsch" but spends only 9 months in jail. 1924 - Royal Canadian Air Force is formed. 1918 - British Royal Air Force (RAF) is formed 1867 - Singapore becomes a British crown colony 1864 - First travel insurance policy sold 1789 - Pennsylvania Representative Frederick A. C. Muhlenberg is elected as the first U.S. House Speaker | |
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2015 - Gunmen attack in Kenya, killing at least 148 people and wounding 79 others. 2005 - Pope John Paul II dies 1992 - Space Shuttle STS-45 (Atlantis 11) lands 1987 - IBM introduces PS/2 & OS/2 1982 - Argentina invades the Falklands Islands 1979 - Anthrax poisoning kills 62 in Russia 1966 - Soviet Union's Luna 10 becomes 1st spacecraft to orbit Moon 1917 - President Woodrow Wilson appears before Congress to ask for a declaration of war against Germany 1917 - Jeannette Pickering Rankin, the first elected congresswoman, takes her seat in the U.S. Capitol as a representative from Montana 1902 - First movie theater opens 1875 - Walter Percy Chrysler, the founder of the Chrysler Corporation, is born in Wamego, Kansas 1513 - Ponce de Leon discovers Florida (the present-day St. Augustine) | |
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2016 - The Panama Papers, a leak of legal documents, reveals information on 214,488 offshore companies. 2010 - Apple Inc. released the first generation iPad, a tablet computer. 1996 - Ronald H. Brown, the U.S. secretary of commerce and 32 other Americans, are killed in plane crash. 1996 - Unabomber arrested 1973 - Martin Cooper of Motorola makes the first handheld mobile phone call to Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs. 1948 - President Truman signs Foreign Assistance Act of 1948 (Marshall Plan), providing over $12B of assistance to aid in the economic recovery of Western Europe. 1922 - Joseph Stalin becomes the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. 1885 - Daimler's engine patent is granted 1865 - Richmond, VA, the Confederate capital, is captured 1860 - Pony Express (Mail) debuts | |
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1997 - DMSP Titan 2 launched and STS 83 (Columbia 22), launch 1996 - Jaguar introduces convertible 1983 - Space Shuttle Challenger makes its maiden voyage into space 1979 - Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan is executed. 1975 - A U.S. Air Force Lockheed C-5A Galaxy transporting orphans crashes near Saigon, South Vietnam shortly after takeoff, killing 172 people. 1975 - Microsoft Inc. is founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico 1969 - Dr. Denton Cooley implants the first temporary artificial heart. 1968 - Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated 1968 - NASA launches Apollo 6 1949 - NATO is established 1912 - China proclaimed in Tibet 1905 - Earthquake in Kangra India, kills 20,000 1873 - The Kennel Club is founded, the oldest and first official registry of purebred dogs in the world 1850 - Los Angeles is incorporated as a city. 1841 - President Harrison dies after one month in office | |
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2008 - Actor Charlton Heston dies 1998 - In Japan, the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge opens to traffic, becoming the longest bridge span in the world. 1992 - Over 500,000 people march in Washington DC to support abortion rights for women 1992 - Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori suspends the constitution and dissolves Congress 1991 - NASA launches Space Shuttle STS 37 (Atlantis 8) 1976 - Howard Hughes dies 1969 - Over 100,000 antiwar demonstrators march in New York City to demand the United States withdraw from Vietnam 1955 - Winston Churchill retires as prime minister of Great Britain 1951 - Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are sentenced to death for passing atomic secrets to the Soviets. 1922 - The American Birth Control League, forerunner of Planned Parenthood, is incorporated. 1792 - Washington exercises first presidential veto | |
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2009 - At least 300 people die after a magnitude 6.9 earthquake strikes L'Aquila, Italy. 2005 - Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani becomes Iraqi president 1998 - Nuclear weapons testing: Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of reaching India. 1992 - The Bosnian War begins. 1973 - NASA launches Pioneer 11 spacecraft 1965 - Intelsat launches Early Bird, the first commercial communications satellite to be placed in geosynchronous orbit. 1941 - Germany invades Yugoslavia and Greece 1917 - The US enters World War I, declares war on Germany 1841 - President John Tyler is sworn in to become the 10th U.S. president, 2 days after President upon William Henry Harrison's death. 1830 - Mor Church established | |
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2009 - Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces.
2005 - Shiite Arab Ibrahim al-Jaafari is named Iraqi premier. 2003 - U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Hussein's regime falls two days later. 2001 - NASA luaches Mars Odyssey. 1994 - Rwandan genocide: Massacres of Tutsis begin in Kigali, Rwanda. 1978 - Development of the neutron bomb is canceled by President Jimmy Carter. 1964 - IBM announces the System/360 1963 - A new Yugoslav constitution proclaims Tito the president for life 1955 - Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom amid indications of failing health. 1953 - Hjalmar Hammarskjold, a former prime minister of Sweden, is elected secretary-general of the United Nations 1947 - Henry Ford, the founder of Ford Motor Company, dies 1945 - Japanese battleship Yamatois k by Allied forces 1939 - Italy invades Albania 1776 - U.S. Navy captures the first British warship HMS Edward off the coast of Virginia. | |
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2013 - Margaret Thatcher, the first female prime minister of the United Kingdom, dies 2008 - The construction of the world's first skyscraper to integrate wind turbines is completed in Bahrain 1992 - Retired tennis star Arthur Ashe announces that he has AIDS, acquired from blood transfusions during one of his two heart surgeries. 1986 - Clint Eastwood elected mayor 1945 - Defiant theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer is hanged 1935 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Emergency Relief Appropriation Act 1911 - Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity 1899 - The first woman is executed in the electric chair 563 BC - Buddhists celebrate birth of Gautama Buddha | |
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1991 - Georgia declares independence from the Soviet Union. 1969 - The first British-built Concorde 002 makes its maiden flight from Filton to RAF Fairford 1967 - The first Boeing 737 (a 100 series) makes its maiden flight. 1965 - Astrodome opens; first indoor baseball game is played. 1959 - NASA introduces Scott Carpenter, L. Gordon Cooper Jr., John H. Glenn Jr., Virgil “Gus” Grissom, Walter Schirra Jr., Alan Shepard Jr., and Donald Slayton, as the first American astronauts 1942 - U.S. surrenders in Bataan 1940 - Germany invades Norway and Denmark 1865 - Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrenders his army to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia 1413 - Henry V is crowned King of England | |
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2019 - Scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope project announce the first ever image of a black hole, located in the centre of the M87 galaxy. 2010 - Polish Air Force Tu-154M crashes near Smolensk, Russia, killing 96 people, including Polish President Lech Kaczyński, his wife, and dozens of other senior officials and dignitaries. 1972 - American B-52 bombers begin bombing North Vietnam for the first time since November 1967 1972 - Fiat executive Oberdan Sallustro is executed by Argentine Communist guerrillas 1963 - The USS Thresher, an atomic submarine, sinks in the Atlantic Ocean, killing entire 129 crew members 1941 - German and Italian invaders of Yugoslavia set up the Independent State of Croatia (also including Bosnia and Herzegovina) 1933 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt establishes the Civilian Conservation Corps 1919 - Emiliano Zapata, a leader of peasants and indigenous people during the Mexican Revolution, is killed in Morelos by government forces 1912 - RMS Titanic sets sail from Southampton, England on her maiden and only voyage. | |
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2018 - An Ilyushin Il-76, which was owned and operated by the Algerian Air Force, crashes near Boufarik, killing 257. 1988 - Actress and singer Cher wins Best Actress Oscar for for her performance in Moonstruck 1976 - The Apple I computer is created 1970 - Apollo 13, the 3rd lunar landing mission, is successfully launched to moon 1961 - The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem 1957 - United Kingdom agrees to Singaporean self-rule 1951 - President Harry S. Truman relieves General Douglas MacArthur of command of the US forces in Korea 1919 - International Labor Organization is founded in Paris, France 1909 - The city of Tel Aviv is founded 1814 - Napoleon exiles to Elba 1803 - French Foreign Minister Charles Maurice de Talleyrand makes an offer to sell Louisiana (state) to the U.S. | |
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2009 - Zimbabwe officially abandons the Zimbabwean dollar as its official currency. 1999 - President Bill Clinton is cited for contempt of court for giving "intentionally false statements" in a civil lawsuit; he is later fined and disbarred. 1981 - The space shuttle Columbia is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, becoming the first reusable manned spacecraft to travel into space 1980 - Transbrasil Flight 303, a Boeing 727, crashes on approach to Hercílio Luz International Airport, in Florianópolis, Brazil, killing 54 out of the 58 people on board 1975 - As the communist Khmer Rouge forces make the final assault on Phnom Penh, U.S. Embassy in Cambodia is evacuated 1970 - Soviet submarine K-8, carrying four nuclear torpedoes, sinks in the Bay of Biscay four days after a fire on board. 1961 - Cosaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin becomes the first human being to travel into space 1945 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies after four momentous terms in office 1914 - The Mark Strand Theatre, the first public movie “palace”, opens in New York City. 1861 - The Civil War begins 1633 - Galileo is convicted of heresy | |
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2017 - The US drops the largest ever non-nuclear weapon on Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan 1997 - Tiger Woods wins first major golf tournament 1990 - Soviets admit to Katyn Massacre of World War II, nearly 5,000 Polish military officers were killed 1976 - The US Treasury Department reintroduces the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note on Thomas Jefferson's 233rd birthday 1970 - Apollo 13's oxygen tank is exploded 1964 - Sydney Poitier becomes the first African American to win the Academy Award for Best Actor 1960 - The United States launches Transit 1-B, the world's first satellite navigation system. 1943 - The Jefferson Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C., on the 200th anniversary of President Thomas Jefferson's birth. 1918 - Germany invades Helsinki, Finland. 1870 - The New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art is founded. 1743 - President Jefferson is born in Virginia. | |
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2010 - At least 2,700 people die after a magnitude 6.9 earthquake strikes western China's Qinghai province.
1988 - Soviets troops withdraw from Afghanistan 1986 - The U.S. launches air strikes against Libya 1956 - First video camera for sound and pictures is produced 1927 - The first Volvo car premieres in Gothenburg, Sweden. 1909 - A massacre is organized by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenian population of Cilicia. 1894 - The first ever commercial motion picture house opens in New York City, using ten Kinetoscopes, a device for peep-show viewing of films 1865 - President Abraham Lincoln is shot by Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth at a play at Ford’s Theater, seven blocks from the White House, Washington, D.C.; Lincoln lives till the following day. 1818 - Webster’s American Dictionary of the English Language is printed | |
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2019 - The cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris in France is seriously damaged by a large fire 2013 - Two bombs go off near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing 3 spectators and wounding more than 260 people 2002 - Air China Flight 129 crashes on approach to Gimhae International Airport in South Korea, killing 129 people 1998 - Pol Pot, the architect of Cambodia’s killing fields, dies 1967 - Massive antiwar protests are held in New York and San Francisco 1959 - Castro visits the United States 1952 - First flight of the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress. 1924 - Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas 1912 - Titanic sinks 1892 - The General Electric Company is formed. 1865 - President Lincoln dies from an assassin’s bullet 1861 - President Abraham Lincoln calls for 75,000 Volunteers to quell the insurrection that soon became the American Civil War. | |
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2014 - The South Korean ferry MV Sewol capsizes and sinks near Jindo Island, killing 304 passengers and crew. 2007 - Virginia Tech shooting: Seung-Hui Cho guns down 32 people and injures 17 before committing suicide. 1972 - Apollo 16, the 5th of six U.S. lunar landing missions, is successfully launched to the moon 1945 - More than 7,000 die when the German refugee ship Goya is sunk by a Soviet submarine 1943 - Albert Hofmann accidentally discovers the hallucinogenic effects of the research drug Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD) used mainly as a recreational drug or for spiritual reasons. 1917 - Lenin, leader of the revolutionary Bolshevik Party, returns to Russia from exile 1912 - Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel 1910 - The oldest existing indoor ice hockey arena still used for the sport in the 21st century, Boston Arena, opens for the first time. 1908 - Natural Bridges National Monument is established in Utah. 1897 - Frederick William Winterbotham, one of Britain's top code breakers, is born 1889 - Actor Charlie Chaplin is born in London, England 1787 - First American playwright produced | |
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2014 - NASA's Kepler space telescope confirms the discovery of the first Earth-size planet in the habitable zoneof another star. 1975 - Cambodia falls to the Khmer Rouge 1971 - The Provisional Government of Bangladesh is formed. 1970 - Apollo 13 returns to Earth 1964 - Ford Mustang, a two-seat, mid-engine sports car, debuts at World’s Fair in Flushing Meadows, New York 1961 - The Bay of Pigs invasion begins 1946 - The last French troops are withdrawn from Syria 1945 - Americans seize 1,100 tons of uranium in Germany 1945 - Historian Tran Trong Kim is appointed the Prime Minister of the Empire of Vietnam 1941 - Yugoslavia surrenders to Germany (300,000 Yugoslav officers and soldiers were taken prisoner, only 200 Germans died) 1815 - Heavy eruptions of the Tambora volcano in Indonesia kills 80,000 people 1790 - Benjamin Franklin dies in Philadelphia at age 84 | |
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2020 - Coronavirus Pandemic: Europe surpasses 100,000 COVID-19 deaths. 2018 - King Mswati III of Swaziland announces that his country's name will change to Eswatini 1989 - Thousands of Chinese students protest against government in Beijing, China 1983 - Suicide bomber destroys U.S. embassy in Beirut, killing 63 people, including 17 Americans 1954 - Gamal Abdel Nasser seizes power in Egypt 1949 - The Republic of Ireland Act comes into effect, declaring Ireland may be officially described as the Republic of Ireland 1909 - Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome. 1906 - Up to 3,000 people die either from collapsing buildings or in the subsequent fire after a series of violent shocks in the Great San Francisco, CA 1831 - The University of Alabama is founded in Tuscaloosa, Alabama | |
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2011 - Fidel Castro resigns as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba after holding the title since July 1961 2005 - Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is elected to the papacy and becomes Pope Benedict XVI 2000 - Air Philippines Flight 541 crashes in Samal, Davao del Norte, killing all 131 people on board 1995 - Truck bomb explodes in Oklahoma City kills 168 people 1993 - Branch Davidian compound at Mount Carmel in Waco, Texas, burns 1985 - Two hundred ATF and FBI agents lay siege to the compound of the white supremacist survivalist group The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord in Arkansas; the CSA surrenders two days later. 1975 - India's first satellite Aryabhata launched in orbit from Kapustin Yar, Russia 1971 - Soviet launches Salyut 1, the first space station 1971 - Sierra Leone becomes a republic 1770 - Marie Antoinette marries Louis XVI of France in a proxy wedding | |
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2013 - A 6.6-magnitude earthquake strikes Lushan County, Ya'an, in China's Sichuan province, killing more than 150 people and injuring thousands. 2012 - A plane crashes in a residential area, Islamabad, Pakistan, killing 127 people. 2008 - 26-year-old Danica Patrick wins the Indy Japan 300 at Twin Ring Montegi in Montegi, Japan, making her the first female winner in IndyCar racing history. 1999 - Columbine High School massacre, killing 13 people and injuring 24 others 1998 - Air France Flight 422 crashes after taking off from El Dorado International Airport in Bogotá, Colombia, killing all 53 people on board. 1978 - Korean Air Lines jet forced down over Soviet Union 1972 – Apollo 16 lunar module, commanded by John Young and piloted by Charles Duke, lands on the moon. 1912 - Opening day for baseball's Tiger Stadium in Detroit, and Fenway Park in Boston 1902 - Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride. 1898 - President William McKinley signs a joint resolution to Congress for declaration of war against Spain, beginning the Spanish–American War. 1777 - New York adopts state constitution | |
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2019 – Eight bombs explode in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday, killing at least 250 people 1992 - Executions resume in California 1989 - Over 100,000 Chinese students begin protests at Tiananmen Square 1987 – The Tamil Tigers detonates car bombs in the Sri Lankan capital city of Colombo, killing 106 people. 1975 - Vietnam War: President of South Vietnam Nguyễn Văn Thiệu flees Saigon to the U.S as Xuan Loc falls 1967 – A few days before the general election in Greece, Colonel George Papadopoulos leads a coup d'état, establishing a military regime that lasts for 7 years 1956 - Elvis Presley's first No. 1 hit 1895 - First projected movie in the U.S. 763 BC - Rome is founded | |
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1994 - Former President Richard Nixon dies 1977 – Optical fiber is first used to carry live telephone traffic. 1970 - First Earth Day is celebrated 1948 – Arab–Israeli War: The port city of Haifa is captured by Jewish forces. 1945 - Hitler admits defeat 1915 - Germans introduce poison gas 1864 – The U.S. Congress passes the Coinage Act of 1864 that mandates that the inscription "In God We Trust" be placed on all coins minted as U.S. currency. 1519 – Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés establishes a settlement at Veracruz, Mexico. | |
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2005 – The first YouTube video, "Me at the Zoo", is published. 1993 – Eritreans vote overwhelmingly for independence from Ethiopia in a United Nations-monitored referendum. 1990 – Namibia becomes the 160th member of the United Nations. 1987 - Chrysler Corporation purchases Nuova Automobili F. Lamborghini, the Bologna, Italy-based maker of high-priced, high-performance cars. 1975 - Ford says that war is finished for America 1969 - Sirhan Sirhan is sentenced to the death penalty after being convicted in the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy 1940 – The Rhythm Club fire in Natchez, Mississippi, kills 198 people. 1935 – The Polish Constitution of 1935 is adopted. 1564 - William Shakespeare born 1791 - President Buchanan is born in Pennsylvania. | |
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2013 – A building collapses near Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing 1,129 people and injuring at least 2,500 others. 1990 – NASA launches Hubble Space Telescope, STS-31, from the Space Shuttle Discovery. 1980 - An ill-fated military operation to rescue the 52 American hostages held in Tehran, Iran, ends with 8 U.S. servicemen dead and no hostages rescued. 1970 – China launches Dong Fang Hong I, becoming the 5th country to put an object into orbit using its own booster. 1970 – The Gambia becomes a republic with Dawda Jawara as its first President. 1945 - President Truman is briefed on Manhattan Project, which is attempting to develop the first atomic bomb 1936 - First unscheduled television event 1915 – The arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul marks the beginning of the Armenian Genocide. 1800 - Library of Congress is established | |
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2015 - A magnitude 7.8 quake kills more than 9,000 people in Lamjung, Nepal 2005 – Bulgaria and Romania sign accession treaties to join the European Union. 2004 – The March for Women's lives brings around 800,000 protesters, mostly pro-choice, to Washington D.C. 1990 - The Hubble Space Telescope is placed into a low orbit around Earth 1980 - A Dan-Air Boeing 727 carrying British tourists to the Canary Islands crashes, killing all 146 on board 1944 – The United Negro College Fund is incorporated. 1882 – French and Vietnamese troops clash the first battle in northern Vietnam 1898 – The United States declares war on Spain. 1862 - Fall of New Orleans 1859 - Ground broken for Suez Canal | |
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2019 – Marvel Studios releases "Avengers: Endgame", becoming the highest grossing film of all time with a worldwide box-office gross of over $2.8 billion 1994 – China Airlines Flight 140 crashes at Nagoya Airport in Japan, killing 264 of the 271 people on board. 1989 – A violent tornado strikes Central Bangladesh, killing more than 1,300 people and injuring at least 12,000 others 1986 - Lucille Ball dies 1986 - Nuclear disaster at Chernobyl 1984 - Reagan visits China 1982 – 57 people are killed by former police officer Woo Bum-kon in a shooting spree in South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea. 1981 – Dr. Michael R. Harrison of the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center performs the world's first human open fetal surgery. 1964 – Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form Tanzania. 1962 – NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon. 1954 - Geneva Conference begins | |
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2018 – The Panmunjom Declaration is signed between North Korea and South Korea, officially declaring their intentions to end the Korean conflict. 2015 - The first female African-American Attorney General, Loretta Lynch, is appointed. 1994 - South Africa holds first multiracial elections 1992 – The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, comprising Serbia and Montenegro, is proclaimed. 1992 – The Russian Federation and 12 other former Soviet republics become members of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.. 1981 – Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse. 1978 - Afghanistan President Sardar Mohammed Daoud is overthrown and murdered 1961 – Sierra Leone is granted its independence from the United Kingdom, with Milton Margai as the first Prime Minister. 1945 – World War II: Benito Mussolini is arrested by Italian partisans in Dongo, while attempting escape disguised as a German soldier. 1941 - German forces enter Athens 1865 – The New York State Senate creates Cornell University as the state's land grant institution. 1822 - President Grant is born in Vermont. 4977 BC - Universe is created, according to Kepler. | |
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1978 – President of Afghanistan, Mohammed Daoud Khan, is overthrown and assassinated in a coup led by pro-communist rebels. 1969 - Charles de Gaulle resigns as president of France 1967 – Vietnam War: Boxer Muhammad Ali refuses his induction into the United States Army and is subsequently stripped of his championship and license. 1945 – Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci are shot dead at Lake Como by Walter Audisio, a member of the Italian resistance movement. 1920 – Azerbaijan is added to the Soviet Union. 1915 - International Congress of Women opens at The Hague Netherlands, with more than 1,200 delegates from 12 countries. 1758 - U.S. Senator/President James Monroe is born in Virginia. | |
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2004 - The last Oldsmobile comes off the assembly line at the Lansing Car Assembly plant in Michigan, ending the 106-year-old automotive brand, America’s oldest car model 2004 - National World War II Memorial opens in Washington, D.C. 1991 - A devastating cyclone hits Bangladesh, killing more than 135,000 people 1975 - U.S. involvement in the war comes to an end, evacuating U.S. citizens from Saigon. 1953 – The first U.S. experimental 3D television broadcast showed an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV. 1945 - Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun marry 1945 - Americans liberates Dachau, Munich, the first concentration camp established by Germany’s Nazi regime 1862 - Union captures New Orleans 1854 - Ashmun Institute, the first college founded solely for African-American students, is officially chartered | |
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2009 – Chrysler files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. 2014 – A bomb blast in Ürümqi, China kills 3 people and injures 79 others. 1980 – The Iranian Embassy siege begins in London. 1975 - North Vietnam communist forces gain control of Saigon, South Vietnam surrenders 1970 - President Nixon announces sending US troops to Cambodia. 1948 - Land Rover is introduced 1945 - Adolf Hitler commits suicide in his underground bunker as Russian troops fought to within yards of his subterranean bunker. 1927 - The first federal prison for women opens 1925 - Dodge is produced and sold 1905 – Albert Einstein completes his doctoral thesis at the University of Zurich. 1789 - George Washington gives first presidential inaugural address | |
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