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1181 - Supernova observed by Chinese & Japanese astronomers
1497 - Italian explorer John Cabot returns to Bristol from North America (Newfoundland) - first European to do so since the Vikings
1538 - Bogotá, Colombia, is founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada.
1825 - Bolivia gains independence from Peru (National Day)
1903 - Напишан е Крушевскиот манифест.
1945 - Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima by the US B-29 Superfortress "Enola Gay"
1962 - Jamaica becomes independent after 300 years of British rule
2012 - Mount Tongariro, New Zealand, erupts for the first time in a century
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1583 - Humphrey Gilbert claims Newfoundland for the British crown - first English colony in North America and the beginning of the British Empire
1858 - Cyrus W Field completes 1st transatlantic telegraph cable
1884 - Cornerstone for Statue of Liberty laid on Bedloe's Island (NYC)
1930 - Neil Armstrong, Wapakoneta Ohio, X-15 pilot, 1st Moonwalker (Gemini 8, Apollo 11), (d. 2012)
1949 - 6.75 Earthquake hits Quito; about 6,000 die
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1181 - Supernova seen in Cassiopia
1881 - 122°F (50°C), Seville, Spain (European record)
1944 - Anne Frank arrested in Amsterdam by German Security Police (Grüne Polizei) following a tip-off from an informer who was never identified
1946 - An earthquake of magnitude 8.0 hits northern Dominican Republic. 100 are killed and 20,000 are left homeless.
1984 - Republic of Upper Volta becomes Bourkina Faso (National Day)
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1492 - Christopher Columbus sets sail on his first voyage with 3 ships Santa Maria, Pinta and Niña from Palos de la Frontera, Spain for the "Indies"
1804 - Naturalist Alexander von Humboldt lands at Bordeaux, France completing his 5 year expedition to Latin America
1833 - HMS Beagle reaches river mouth of Rio Negro
1940 - Lithuanian SSR is accepted into USSR
1960 - Niger gains independence from France
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1787 - Horace the Saussure reaches top of Mont Blanc
1870 - Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London.
1903 – Ilinden uprising of Macedonians against Turkey.
1944 – In the monastery St. Prohor Pcinski, Kumanovo, was held the First Anti-Fascist Assembly of the Macedonian people.
1985 - NASA launches space vehicle S-209
1989 - NASA confirmed Voyager 2's discovery of 3 more moons of Neptune designated temporarily 1989 N2, 1989 N3 & 1989 N24