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1456 - Earthquake strikes Naples; about 35,000 die
1492 - Columbus discovers Hispaniola (El Espanola/Haiti)
1815 - Foundation of Maceió in Brazil.
1975 - NASA launches space vehicle S-196, it failed
1978 - Pioneer Venus 1 begins orbiting Venus
International Volunteer Day
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1674 - Father Jacques Marquette founds a mission on the shores of Lake Michigan to minister to the Illiniwek (the mission would later grow into the city of Chicago, Illinois).
1833 - American Anti-Slavery Society formed by Arthur Tappan in Philadelphia
1863 - Storm flood ravages Netherlands coastal provinces
1978 - Pioneer Venus 1 goes into orbit around Venus
1996 - NASA's 1st Mars rover launched from Cape Canaveral
World Wildlife Conservation Day
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1736 - Astronomer Anders Celsius takes measurements that confirm Newton's theory that the earth was an ellipsoid rather than the previously accepted sphere
1775 - First official US flag raised (Grand Union Flag) aboard naval vessel USS Alfred
1818 - Illinois becomes the 21st U.S. state.
1973 - Pioneer program: Pioneer 10; NASA launches Pioneer 10 sends back the first close-up images of Jupiter.
1993 - United States opened a liaison office in Skopje.
2012 - Typhoon Bopha; At least 475 people are killed in the Philippines.
International Day of Persons with Disabilities
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1409 - The University of Leipzig opens.
1929 - First skull of Peking man found, 50 km out of Peking at Tsjoe Koe Tien, named 'Sinanthropus pekinensis' (now known as 'Homo erectus')
1970 - United States Environmental Protection Agency begins operations.
1971 - Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Fujairah, Sharjah, Dubai and Umm Al Quwain form the United Arab Emirates.
International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
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1640 - Portugal regains independence after 60 years of Spanish rule
1821 - Dominican Republic gains Independence from Spain.
1865 - Shaw University: the first historically black university in the southern United States, is founded in Raleigh, North Carolina.
1918 - Danish parliament passed an act to grant Iceland independence under Danish crown
1918 - Kingdom of Yugoslavia: is proclaimed uniting the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.
1959 - The 1st color photograph of Earth received from outer space
World AIDS Day