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1754 - Columbia University founded, as Kings College (NYC)
1781 - Andre Méchain discovers M80 (globular cluster in Scorpio)
1854 - The McDonald Islands are discovered by Captain William McDonald aboard the Samarang.
1887 - Thomas Stevens is 1st man to bicycle around the world (SF-SF)
1896 - Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.
1948 - Burma declares independence from UK
1958 - Sir Edmund Hillary reaches the South Pole
1959 - Luna 1 (Mechta) becomes 1st craft to leave Earth's gravity
1960 - European Free Trade Association forms in Stockholm
2010 - The official opening of Burj Khalifa the tallest skyscraper and building at 829.84 m (2,723 ft).
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1870 - The construction of the Brooklyn Bridge begins.
1888 - The refracting telescope at the Lick Observatory, measuring 91 cm in diameter, is used for the first time. It was the largest telescope in the world at the time.
1911 - Kebin earthquake; a 7.7 magnitude earthquake destroys the city of Almaty in Russian Turkestan.
1918 - Recognized the independence of Finland.
1959 - Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. state.
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1839 - French photography pioneer Louis Daguerre captures first picture of the Moon.
1860 – Discovery of the planet Vulcan (hypothetical planet) is announced at a meeting of the French Academy of Sciences in Paris, France.
1959 - Luna 1, the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon and to orbit the Sun, is launched by the Soviet Union.
1999 - North American blizzard of 1999: A brutal snowstorm smashes into the Midwestern United States, causing 14 inches (359 mm) of snow in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and 19 inches (487 mm) in Chicago, Illinois, where temperatures plunge to -13 °F (-25 °C); 68 deaths are reported.
2004 - Stardust (spacecraft) successfully flies past Comet Wild 2, collecting samples that are returned to Earth.
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45 BC - The Julian calendar takes effect for the first time.
1502 - Portuguese navigators discover Rio de Janeiro
1610 - German astronomer Simon Marius 1st discovers the Jupiter moons, but does not officially report it, Galileo does on July 1 1610
1700 - Protestant Western Europe (except England) begin using Gregorian calendar
1801 - The dwarf planet Ceres is discovered by Italian monk Giuseppe Piazzi.
1804 - Haiti gains independence from France (National Day)
1880 - Building of Panama Canal, begins
1907 - The first New Year's Eve celebration is held in Times Square (then known as Longacre Square) in New York City.
1925 - Norway's capital Christiania changes name to Oslo
2002 - Euro banknotes and coins become legal tender in twelve of the European Union's member states.
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1687 - Huguenots for the first time set sail from France to the Cape of Good Hope.
1897 - Brooklyn's last day as a city, it incorporates into NYC (1/1/1898)
1941 – In Struga, on the pass to New Year 1942 was sung the famous song "Today above Macedonia" - today's anthem of the Republic of Macedonia.
1946 - Adopted the first Constitution of the Republic of Macedonia.
2004 - The official opening of Taipei 101 the tallest skyscraper at that time in the world, standing at a height of 509 metres (1,670 ft).