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1833 - Charles Darwin visits Guardia del Monte, Argentina
1848 - Hyperion, moon of Saturn, discovered by Bond (US) & Lassell (England)
1865 - Atlanta University forms
1893 - New Zealand is first country to grant all women the right to vote
1955 - Hurricane Hilda, kills 200 in Mexico
1974 - -20] Hurricane Fifi hits coast of Honduras; about 5,000 die
1981 - Satellites China 10 & 11 launched into Earth orbit by B-1 rocket
1985 - 12,000 die & 40,000 injured in Mexico's earthquake (8.1)
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1502 - Christopher Columbus lands at Costa Rica on his 4th & last voyage
1679 - New Hampshire becomes a county in Massachusetts Bay Colony
1810 - Chile declares independence from Spain (National Day)
1926 - Hurricane hits Miami, kills 250
1959 - Vanguard 3 launched into Earth orbit
1974 - Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, 5,000 die
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1598 - Netherland sailors discover Mauritius
1630 - The city of Boston, Massachusetts is founded.
1789 - William Herscheldiscovers Mimas, satellite of Saturn
1835 - Charles Darwins lands on Chatham Galapagos-archipelago
1849 - Harriet Tubman 1st escapes slavery in Maryland with two of her brothers
1871 - Mont Cenis railway tunnel Switzerland opens
1968 - Zond 5 completes circumnavigation of Moon
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1725 - Nicolas Desmarest, French geologist (d. 1815)
1810 - Mexico issues Grito de Dolores, which called for the end of Spanish rule. Mexican Independence Day celebrates this event.
1827 - Jean Albert Gaudry, French geologist (d. 1908)
1848 - Slavery abolished in all French territories
1906 - Roald Amundsen discovers Magnetic South Pole
1963 - Malaya, Singapore, British North Borneo (Sabah) and Sarawak form Malaysia
1975 - Papua New Guinea gains independence from Australia (National Day)
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1254 - Marco Polo, Venice, Italian explorer, was born
1821 - Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras & Nicaragua gain independence
1835 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches Galapagos Islands
1904 - Wilbur Wright makes his 1st airplane flight
1945 - A hurricane in southern Florida and the Bahamas destroys 366 planes and 25 blimps at NAS Richmond.
1961 - Hurricane Carla strikes Texas with winds of 175 mph
1972 - A magnitude 4.5 earthquake shakes Northern Illinois.
1976 - Soyuz 22 carries 2 cosmonauts into Earth orbit for 8 days