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1540 - The researcher Hernando de Alarcon travels along the Colorado River.
1609 - Galileo demonstrates the first telescope of Venetian parliamentarians.
1768 - Captain Cook leaves Plymouth to the Pacific Ocean.
1825 - Uruguay declares independence from BRASIL (NATIONAL DAY).
1940 - Latvia, Lebanon and Estonia included in the Soviet Union.
1988 - NASA launches spacecraft S-214.
1989 - After 12 years, 4 billion miles, Voyager 2 flying around Neptune and his moon Triton, sends photos of the wetlands.
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79 - Vesuvius eruption, Pompeii and Herculaneum destroyed, 15 000 dead.
1608 - The first English convoy is crowned in Surat, India.
1899 - A group of Zagreb scholars discovered bones, teeth and tools in the area of the Krapina area, the findings were significant evidence of the true Darwin science of evolution.
1960 - In the East of Antarctica the record lowest temperature was measured: -88 ° C.
2006 - Defined the term "planet" by the MAS in Prague, the Czech Republic, according to which Pluto is a planet-dwarf, and the solar system has 8 planets.
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79 - Vesuvius volcano begins to boil, on the day of the Roman god of fire, Volcano.
1541 - French explorer Jacques Cartier on his third trip to Canada arrives near Quebec.
1617 - The first one-way street opened in London.
1821 - Mexico announces independence.
1924 - The smallest distance of Mars from the Earth was noticed after the 10th century.
1952 - The Arab League has been established.
1962 - Telstar's telecoms satellite telecast for the first time on the US-Europe line.
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1770 – James Cook names and lands on Possession Island, and claims the east coast of Australia for Britain as New South Wales.
1780 – James Cook's ship HMS Resolution returns to England (Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage).
1827 – José de la Mar becomes President of Peru.
1834 – Samuel Pierpont Langley, American physicist and astronomer (d. 1906)
1896 – Laurence McKinley Gould, American geologist, educator, and polar explorer (d. 1995)
1949 – The Queen Charlotte earthquake is Canada's strongest since the 1700 Cascadia earthquake
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1821 - The crew of the ship Eliza Frances reveals the island of Jarvis.
1842 - The city of Hobart, Tasmania, was founded.
1957 - First rocket launched in Baikonur, Kazachstan (R7 "Semiorka" -rocket)
1959 - Hawaii becomes the 50th US state.
1965 - Gemini 5 is launched into the orbit of the Earth with two astronauts.
1989 - Voyager 2 starts flipping the planet Neptune.
1991 - Latvia declares independence from the USSR.