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1770 – James Cook formally claimed eastern Australia for Great Britain, naming it New South Wales.1831 – Nat Turner led black slaves and free blacks in a rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia.1879 – The Virgin Mary, along with St. Joseph an...
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1561 – 18-year-old Mary Queen of Scots returned to Scotland, after spending 13 years in France.1692 – 5 people, 1 woman and 4 men, including a clergyman, were executed after being convicted of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts.1745 – Prince Ch...
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1858 – Charles Darwin first published his theory of evolution in The Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, alongside Alfred Russel Wallace's same theory.1882 – Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture debuted in Moscow.1940...
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762 – Baghdad was founded.1866 – New Orleans's Democratic government ordered police to raid an integrated Republican Party meeting, killing 40 people and injuring 150.1965 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Social Security Act of 1965 ...
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1829 – In the United States, William Austin Burt patented the Typographer, a precursor to the typewriter.1840 – The Province of Canada was created by the Act of Union.1892 – Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia was born.1903 – The Ford Motor C...
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1545 – The Tudor warship Mary Rose sank off Portsmouth.1553 – Lady Jane Grey was replaced by Mary I of England as Queen of England after having been Queen for just nine days.1692 – Five women were hanged for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, ...
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1712 – The Riot Act took effect in Great Britain.1859 - American baseball fans were charged an admission fee for the first time. 1,500 spectators paid 50 cents each to see Brooklyn play New York.1881 – Sioux Chief Sitting Bull led the last of hi...
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1949 – Celebrities Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson were named in an FBI report as Communist Party members.1953 – The United States Supreme Court ruled that Washington, D.C. ...
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1543 – French troops invade Luxembourg.1947 – The Roswell UFO incident took place.1967 – The civil war in Biafra began.1969 – In Canada, the Official Languages Act is adopted making the French language equal to the English blanguage throughou...
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1776 - The Declaration of Independence was adopted. However, it was not declared a public holiday in the USA until 1941. ...
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862 – St. Swithun, Bishop of Winchester died.1698 – Thomas Savery patented the first steam engine.1776 – The Continental Congress adopted a resolution severing ties with Great Britain although the wording of the formal Declaration of Independen...
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1860 – The 1860 Oxford evolution debate at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History took place.1936 - Gone with the Wind was published.1908 – The Tunguska event occured in Siberia.1934 – The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler's viole...
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1678 – Elena Cornaro Piscopia became the first woman to be awarded a doctorate of philosophy.1876 – Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer died at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.1947 – The Diary of Anne Frank was published.1991 – Croati...
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1284 – The legendary Pied Piper led 130 children out of Hamelin, Germany.1483 – Richard III was crowned king of England.1870 – The Christian holiday of Christmas was declared a federal holiday in the United States.1917 – The first U.S. troops...
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1305 – King Wenceslaus II of Bohemia and Poland died.1377 – King Edward III of England died.1652 – Inigo Jones died.1905, Jean-Paul Sartre was born.1948 – Columbia Records introduced the long-playing record album (LP) in a public demonstratio...
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1633 – The Holy Office in Rome forced Galileo Galilei to recant his view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe.1907 – The London Underground's Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway opened.1922 – 19 strikebreakers and ...
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1269 – King Louis IX of France ordered all Jews found in public without an identifying yellow badge to be fined ten livres of silver.1306 – The Earl of Pembroke's army defeated Bruce's Scottish army at the Battle of Methven.1865 – Over two year...
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1429 – French forces under the leadership of Joan of Arc defeated the main English army under Sir John Fastolf at the Battle of Patay. This turned the tide of the Hundred Years' War.1767 – Samuel Wallis, an English sea captain, sighted Tahiti and...
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1579 – Sir Francis Drake claimed a land he called "Nova Albion" (modern California) for England.1631 – Mumtaz Mahal died during childbirth. Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, then spent more than 20 years building her tomb, the Taj Mahal.1...
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1487 – The Battle of Stoke Field was fought. The final battle of the Wars of the Roses.1586 – Mary Queen of Scots recognizes Philip II of Spain as her heir.1779 – Spain declared war on Great Britain, and the siege of Gibraltar began.1871 – T...
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1381 – Richard II met leaders of the Peasants' Revolt on Blackheath.1381 - The Tower of London was stormed by rebels who entered without resistance.1645 – Battle of Naseby – 12,000 Royalist forces were beaten by 15,000 Parliamentarian soldiers....
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1215 – King John of England put his seal to the Magna Carta.1667 – The first human blood transfusion was administered by Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys.1752 – Benjamin Franklin proved that lightning is electricity.1785 – Jean-François Pilâtre de R...
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1184 BC – The city of Troy was sacked and burned.1509 – Henry VIII of England married Catherine of Aragon.1692 - Salem Village. Bridget Bishop, the first colonist tried in the Salem witch trials, was hanged after being found guilty of the practic...
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1963 - The Secretary of State for War, John Profumo, resigned from government, resigns over a sex scandal, admitting he lied to Parliament about his relationship with a call girl. ...
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1944 - Thousands of Allied troops began landing on the beaches of Normandy in northern France.1966 - James Meredith, the first black man to brave the colour bar at the University of Mississippi, was shot in the back and legs while on a civil rights m...
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62 – Claudia Octavia commited suicide.68 - Roman Emperor Nero commited suicide.1934 – Donald Duck makes his debut in The Wise Little Hen.1958 – Queen Elizabeth II officially opened London Gatwick Airport, (LGW).1975 - BBC radio broadcast the fi...
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1539 – Hernando De Soto, Spanish explorer and conquistador, claimed Florida for Spain.1839 – Lin Tse-hsü destroyed 1.2 million kg of opium in Humen, confiscated from British merchants, providing Britain with a Casus belli to open hostilities wit...
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455 – The Vandals entered Rome, and plundered the city for two weeks.1692 – Bridget Bishop was the first person to go to trial in the Salem witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts.1793 – Jean-Paul Marat recited the names of 29 people to the French...
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1946 - Heathrow International airport opened for civilian use.1985 - The Football Association, supported by Margaret Thatcher, banned English football clubs from playing in Europe following the Heysel stadium tragedy. ...
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193 – Roman Emperor Didius Julianus was murdered.1495 – Friar John Cor recorded the first known batch of scotch whisky.1533 – Anne Boleyn was crowned Queen of England.1794 – The battle of the Glorious First of June was fought, the first naval...
