This Day In History

• 1721 - Tsar Peter the Great becomes "All-Russian Imperator" • 1746 -Princeton University (NJ) received its charter

• 1797 -Andre-Jacques Garnerin makes 1st parachute descent from a balloon in Paris

• 1799 - Russia leaves second anti-French Coalition

• 1812 - Duke of Wellington seizes Burgos, Spain

• 1861 - 1st telegraph line linking West & East coasts completed • 1862 --Battle at Old Fort Wayne, Indian Territory

• 1879 -Thomas Edison perfects carbonized cotton filament light bulb

• 1897 - World's first car dealer opens in London

• 1913 -Explosion at Dawson NM coal mine kills 263 mine workers

• 1928 - China expels all Russian instructors & civil servants • 1946 - 2 British ships sink near Albania

• 1948 - Egyptian flagship King Farouk sunk by Israel

• 1953 - Laos gains full independence from France

• 1954 - West Germany joins North Atlantic Treaty Organization

• 1956 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia

• 1961 - 75,000 Flemings demand equal rights & Flemish language in Belgium

• 1962 - Cuban missile crisis: US President John F. Kennedy addresses TV about Russian missile bases in Cuba and imposes a naval blockade on Cuba, beginning the missile crisis

• 1964 - French philosopher and author Jean-Paul Sartre refuses Nobel prize

• 1964 - US performs underground nuclear test at Hattiesburg, Mississippi

• 1966 - USSR launches Luna 12 for orbit around Moon

• 1973 - Israeli troops reconquer mountain Hermon

• 1973 - Security Council Resolution 338-cease fire to Yom Kippur War

• 1975 - Soviet spacecraft Venera 9 soft-lands on Venus, becoming the first lander to return images from the surface of another planet

• 1975 - Turkish diplomat shot to death in Vienna

• 1975 - World Football League disbands after the Week 12 of their second season

• 1978 - Pope John Paul II is inaugurated as Pope

• 1981 - US national debt tops $1 trillion

• 1981 - USSR performs underground nuclear test

• 1989 - Red Khmer occupies Pailin in Cambodia

• 1992 - Space Shuttle STS 52 (Columbia 13) launches into space

• 1993 - Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Serebrov makes record 9th space walk

• 1997 - Coldest World Series game Marlins vs Cleveland (38°F) • 1997 - Compaq testifies Microsoft threaten to break Windows 95 agreement if they showcased a Netscape icon

• 2006 - Panama Canal expansion proposal is approved by 77.8% of voters in a National referendum held in Panama • 2008 - India launches its first unmanned lunar mission Chandrayaan-1.

• 2008 - Google Play is launched, the official app store for the Android operating system

• 2018 - Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison makes a public apology to victims of child sexual abuse in institutions

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