[The HISTORY of TODAY]
1284 –
Italian city of Pisa is defeated in Battle of Meloria by Genoa,
ruining its naval power.
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1787 –
Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are
delivered to the Constitutional Convention.
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1806 –
Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor, abdicates ending the Holy
Roman Empire of the German Nation.
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1862 –
American Civil War: the Confederate ironclad CSS Arkansas is scuttled
on the Mississippi River after suffering damage in a battle with USS
Essex near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
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1870 –
Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Wœrth is fought, resulting in a
decisive Prussian victory.
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1890 –
At Auburn Prison in New York murderer William Kemmler becomes the
first person to be executed by-electric chair.
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1914 –
World War I: First Battle of the Atlantic - two days after the United
Kingdom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium,
ten German U-boats leave their base in Helgoland to attack Royal Navy
warships in the North Sea.
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1923 –
Henry Sullivan swims the English Channel.
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1926 –
Gertrude Ederle becomes first woman to swim across the English
Channel.
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1926 –
Harry Houdini performs his greatest feat, spending 91 minutes
underwater in a sealed tank before escaping.
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1930 –
Judge Joseph Force Crater steps into a taxi in New York and
disappears.
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1942 –
Queen Wilhelmina becomes the first reigning queen to address a joint
session of the United States Congress.
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1945 –
World War II: Hiroshima is devastated when an atomic bomb, “Little
Boy”, is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay. Around 70,000
people are killed instantly, and some tens of thousands died in
subsequent years due to burns and radiation poisoning.
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1960 –
Cuban Revolution: in response to a United States embargo, Cuba
nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation.
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1962 –
Jamaica becomes independent.
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1964 –
Prometheus, the world’s oldest tree, is cut down.
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1965 –
US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965
into law.
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1966 –
Braniff Airlines Flight 250 crashes in Falls City, NE killing all 42
on board.
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1976 –
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto lays the foundation stone of Port Qasim, Karachi.
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1990 –
Gulf War: the United Nations Security Council orders a global trade
embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait.
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1991 –
Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide
Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet.
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1991 –
Doi Takako, chair of the Social Democratic Party (Japan), becomes
Japan’s first female speaker of the House of Representatives.
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1993 –
According to a Japanese government and Tokyo Broadcasting System
networks report, heavy rains and debris kill 72 in the Kagoshima and
Aira areas, of Kyushu, Japan.
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1996 –
NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate
from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
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1997 –
1997 - Korean Air Flight 801, a Boeing 747-300, crashes into the
jungle on Guam on approach to airport, killing 228.
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2008 –
A military junta led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz stages a coup d’état
in Mauritania, overthrowing president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi
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