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1784 - Russia founds a colony on Kodiak Island, Alaska.
1867 - Foundation of the National University of Colombia.
1951 - Earthquake hits Formosa, 100 killed.
1953 - Laos gains full independence from France.
1962 - Pacific Science Center opens at Seattle Center.
1966 - USSR launches Luna 12 for orbit around Moon.
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1520 - Explorer Ferdinand Magellen and his fleet reach Cape Virgenes and become first Europeans to sail into the Pacific Ocean
1520 - João Álvares Fagundes discovers the islands of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, bestowing them their original name of "Islands of the 11,000 Virgins".
1923 - 1st planetarium opens at Deutsche Museum in Munich
1975 - Venera 9, 1st craft to orbit planet Venus launched
2003 - Images of the dwarf planet Eris are taken and subsequently used in its discovery by the team of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz.
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1808 - Karl [Theodor] Andree, German geographer/journalist (Globus)
1833 - Charles Darwin reaches river mouth of Parana
1880 - Amsterdam Free University opens
1926 - Hurricane in Cuba, kills 600
1991 - Uttarkashi earthquake; a 6.8 magnitude earthquake strikes the Uttarkashi region of India, killing more than 1,000 people.
World Statistics Day
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1469 - Ferdinand II of Aragon marries Isabella I of Castile, a marriage that paves the way to the unification of Aragon and Castile into a single country, Spain.
1492 - Columbus sites "Isabela" (Fortune Island, Bahamas)
1872 - World's largest gold nugget (215 kg) found in New South Wales
1967 - Mariner 5 makes fly-by of Venus
2003 - Mother Teresa of Calcutta is beatified by Pope John Paul II.
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1091 - a tornado thought to be of strength T8/F4 strikes the heart of London.
1604 - German astronomer Johannes Kepler observes a supernova in the constellation Ophiuchus.
1918 - Yugoslavia proclaims itself a republic
1979 - Mother Teresa awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1989 - a magnitude earthquake hits the San Francisco Bay Area and causes 57 deaths directly (and 6 indirectly).
International Day for the Eradication of Poverty