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== Art and culture == == Art and culture ==
* [[1819]] - [[Simón Bolívar]] triumphs over [[Spain]]. * [[1819]] - [[Simón Bolívar]] triumphs over [[Spain]].
-* [[1879]] - The opening of the [[Poor Man's Palace]] in [[Manchester]]. 
-* [[1927]] - The [[Peace Bridge]] opens, between [[Fort Erie, Ontario]] and [[Buffalo, New York]]. 
-* [[1933]] - The [[Iraqi Government]] slaughtered over 3,000 [[Assyrians]] in the village of [[Sumail]]. The day becomes Assyrian Martyrs day. 
-* [[1940]] - [[Alsace Lorraine]] is annexed by the Third Reich (Germany) during [[World War Two]] 
-* [[1942]] - [[World War II]]: [[Battle of Guadalcanal]] begins - [[U.S. Marines]] initiate the first [[United States|American]] offensive of the war with landings on [[Guadalcanal (Pacific Ocean island)|Guadalcanal]] and [[Battle of Tulagi and Gavutu-Tanambogo|Tulagi]] in the [[Solomon Islands]]. 
-* [[1944]] - [[IBM]] dedicates the first program-controlled [[calculator]], the [[Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator]] (known best as the [[Harvard Mark I]]). 
-* [[1945]] - [[President]] [[Harry Truman]] announces the bombing of [[Hiroshima]] with an [[nuclear weapon|atomic bomb]] while returning from the [[Potsdam Conference]] aboard the heavy cruiser [[USS Augusta (CA-31)]] in the middle of the [[Atlantic Ocean]]. 
-* [[1947]] - [[Thor Heyerdahl]]'s [[balsa wood]] raft the [[Kon-Tiki]], smashes into the [[reef]] at [[Raroia]] in the [[Tuamotu Islands]] after a 101-day, 7000-km (4375-mile) journey across the [[Pacific Ocean]] proving that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from [[South America]]. 
-* 1947 - The [[Bombay Municipal Corporation]] formally takes over the [[Bombay Electric Supply and Transport]] ([[BEST]]). 
-* [[1955]] - [[Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering]], the precursor to [[Sony]], begins selling its first [[Transistor radio]]s in [[Japan]]. 
-* [[1959]] - [[Cent (United States coin)]]: [[Lincoln Memorial]] Design on reverse debuted 
-* 1959 - [[Explorer program]]: [[Explorer 6]] launched from the Atlantic Missile Range in [[Cape Canaveral, Florida]]. 
-* [[1960]] - [[Côte d'Ivoire]] becomes independent. 
-* [[1964]] - [[Vietnam War]]: The [[Congress of the United States|U.S. Congress]] passes the [[Gulf of Tonkin Resolution]] giving [[President of the United States|US President]] [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] broad war powers to deal with [[North Vietnam]]ese attacks on [[United States|American]] forces. 
-* [[1966]] - [[Race riot]]s occur in [[Lansing, Michigan]]. 
-* [[1967]] - [[Vietnam War]]: The [[People's Republic of China]] agrees to give [[North Vietnam]] an undisclosed amount of aid in the form of a grant. 
-* [[1970]] - California judge [[Harold Haley]] is taken hostage in his courtroom and killed during in an effort to free [[George Jackson (Black Panther)|George Jackson]] from police custody. 
-* [[1973]] - [[NBC]] airs the final day of the [[Watergate hearings]] on [[U.S.]] daytime television. 
-* [[1976]] - [[Viking program]]: [[Viking 2]] enters into orbit around [[Mars (planet)|Mars]]. 
-* [[1978]] - [[United States]] [[President]] [[Jimmy Carter]] declares a federal emergency at [[Love Canal]]. 
-* [[1981]] -''[[The Washington Star]]'' ceases all operations after 128 years of publication. 
-* [[1985]] - [[Takao Doi]], [[Mamoru Mohri]] and [[Chiaki Mukai]] are chosen to be [[Japan|Japan's]] first [[astronaut]]s. 
-* [[1988]] - Rioting in [[New York City]]'s [[Tompkins Square Park]]. 
-* [[1989]] - [[U.S. Congress]]man [[Mickey Leland]] (D-[[Texas|TX]]) and 15 others die in a [[plane crash]] in [[Ethiopia]]. 
-* [[1991]] - [[World Wide Web]] debuts as a publicly available service on the [[Internet]]. 
-* [[1997]] - [[Garth Brooks]] plays to 750,000 people in [[Central Park]]. 
-* [[1998]] - [[1998 U.S. embassy bombings]]: Bombing of the [[United States]] embassies in [[Dar es Salaam]], [[Tanzania]], and [[Nairobi]], [[Kenya]], kill 224 people and injure over 4,500. 
-* [[1999]] - A group of [[India]]n army veterans launch the [[political party]] [[Rashtriya Raksha Dal]]. 
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