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1737 - Earthquake kills 300,000 and destroys half of Calcutta India
1852 - The University of Sydney, Australia's oldest university, is inaugurated in Sydney.
1864 - Slavery abolished in Maryland
1941 – Beginning of the People’s Uprising in Macedonia.
MACEDONIAN PEOPLE'S UPRISING DAY
1960 - Hurricane ravages East-Pakistan (6,000 die)
1968 - Apollo 7 (Schirra, Eisele & Cunningham) made 163 orbits in 260 hours
INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE GIRL CHILD
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1780 - Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000 - 30,000 in the Caribbean.
1846 - Neptune's moon Triton discovered by William Lassell
1960 - Cyclone hits coast of Gulf of Bengal; about 4000 die
1970 – Fiji gains independence from the United Kingdom.
World Mental Health Day
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1817 - University of Gent officially opens
1820 - Guayaquil, Ecuador declares its freedom from Ecuador
1824 - Slavery is abolished in Costa Rica.
1835 - The Royal College, Colombo, established with the name Hillstreet Academy in Sri Lanka.
1900 - 8.3 magnitude earthquake shakes Cape Yakataga, Alaska
1962 - Uganda becomes independent from the United Kingdom
1963 - Hurricane Flora ravages Cuba & Haiti, kills 6,000
World Post Day
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1492 - Columbus' fleet about 400 sea miles from Puerto Rico
1604 - Supernova "Kepler's nova" first sighted
1769 - Captain James Cook lands in New Zealand (Poverty Bay)
1822 - First eruption of Galunggung (Java) sends boiling sludge into valley
1835 - Charles Darwin reaches James Island, Galapagos archipelago, on HMS Beagle
1991 – Croatia Independence Day
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1492 - Columbus misses Florida when he changes course
1542 - Explorer Cabrillo discovered Catalina Island off California coast
1886 - Spain abolishes slavery in Cuba
1919 - KLM, Royal Ducth Airlines, established (oldest existing airline)
1959 - Far side of Moon seen for 1st time, compliments of USSR's Luna 3