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1887 - Dmitri Mendeleev makes a solo climb with a balloon at a height of 11,500 feet (3,500 m) above Klin, Russia to observe the eclipse of the Sun.
1919 - Afghanistan declares independence from Great Britain (DAY OF INDEPENDENCE).
1959 - Satellite Discoverer 6 is launched in a polar orbit.
1960 - The USSR launches Sputnik 5 into Space; on it there are the dogs Belka and Strelka, 40 mice, 2 rats and many different types of plants.
1964 - Syncom 3 communication satellite is launched.
1966 - An earthquake in Varko, Turkey, 2,400 killed.
1982 - The Alliance T-7 is launched with Svetlana Savitskaya, the second woman in space.
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1201 - The city of Riga is established.
1686 - A satellite is observed that orbits around Venus.
1834 - The volcano Vesuvius erupts.
1868 - French astronomer Pierre Janssen reveals a helium in the solar spectrum during the eclipse of the Sun.
1926 - The first map of the weather forecast is presented.
DAY OF THE ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA (ARM)
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1834 - Charles Darwin walked to Campana, Chile during a trip to Beagle.
1836 - Charles Darwin leaves South America for the last time.
1960 - Gabon gets independence from France (NATIONAL DAY).
1966 - Pioneer 7 is launched.
1970 - Launched Venera 7 (USA), towards Venus.
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1691 - The city, Yorktown, Virginia is established.
1797 - Comet C / 1797 P1 (Bouvard-Herschel) crosses the Earth at an average distance of 0.0879 AUs.
1834 - Charles Darwin climbs to Mount Campana in Chile.
1896 - In Yukon, northwestern Canada, George Carmack discovers gold, which has prompted tens of thousands of adventurers to go looking, in a so-called gold rush.
1960 - Joseph Keatinger skidded with a parachute over New Mexico at a height of 31,330 meters, setting three still current records: the highest jump, the longest free fall and the highest speed of a man without a spacecraft
1984 - NASA launches Ampte.
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1519 - The city of Panama is established.
1537 - The city of Asuncion, Paraguay, was founded.
1540 - The city of Arequipa, Peru.
1824 - Liberated American slaves establish Liberia on the west coast of Africa.
1914 - The Panama Canal was opened.
1925 - Norway annexed the Spitzberg Islands.
1947 - India gets independence from the UK. Dominion remains until 1950. (DAY OF INDEPENDENCE).
1960 - Congo (Brazzil) declares independence from France. (DAY OF INDEPENDENCE).
1971 - Bahrain gets independence from the UK. (DAY OF INDEPENDENCE).