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1684 - Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmund Halley.
1817 - Mississippi admitted as 20th state of the Union
1868 - The first traffic lights are installed outside the Palace of Westminster in London. Resembling railway signals, they use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps.
1901 - The first Nobel Prizes are awarded.
1948 - UN General Assembly adopts Universal Declaration of Human Rights
1963 - Zanzibar gains independenence from Great Britain
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1425 - Pope Martinus V forms University of Leuven
1805 - Comet 3D/1805 V1 (Biela) approaches within 0.0366 AUs of Earth
1962 - Petrified Forest National Park is established in Arizona.
1978 - Pioneer Venus 2 drops 5 probes into atmosphere of Venus
Tanzania Republic Day
International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of this Crime
International Anti-Corruption Day
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883 - St. Clement of Ohrid, the first Slavic and Macedonian poet, translator, protector of the city is appointed the first bishop of the Slavic Balkans.
1609 - Biblioteca Ambrosiana opens its reading room, the second public library of Europe.
1777 - Captain Cook leaves Society Islands
1948 - Jordan annexs Arabic Palestine
2010 - With the second launch of the SpaceX Dragon, SpaceX becomes the first privately held company to successfully launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft.
2012 - UN climate conference agrees to extend the Kyoto Protocol to 2020
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185 - Emperor Lo-Yang, China sees supernova (MSH15-52)
1804 - Naturalist Alexander von Humboldt reports his discovery of the decrease in intensity of Earth's magnetic field from the poles to the equator in a memoir to the Paris Institute
1972 - the last Apollo moon mission, is launched. The crew takes the photograph known as The Blue Marble as they leave the Earth.
1988 - Spitak Earthquake; in Armenia an earthquake measuring 6.9 on the. Richter scale kills nearly 25,000, injures 15,000 and leaves 400,000 homeless.
International Civil Aviation Day - December 7
Letter Writing Day
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1534 - The city of Quito in Ecuador is founded by Spanish settlers led by Sebastián de Belalcázar.
1768 - The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica is published.
1884 - Washington Monument in Washington D.C. is completed.
1917 - Independence Day Finland
1947- Everglades National Park in Florida is dedicated.
Miners Day