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1291 - Everlasting League forms, basis of Swiss Confederation (Independence)
1498 - Christopher Columbus lands on "Isla Santa" (Venezuela)
1834 - Slavery abolished throughout the British Empire - Slavery Abolition Act 1833 comes into effect
1869 - 1st voyage down Colorado River
1876 - Colorado becomes 38th state of the Union
1960 - Islamabad declared as the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan.
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1619 - House of Burgesses Virginia forms, 1st elective American governing body. This city is the first settlement in the New World where the first English settlers arrived in 1607.
1729 - City of Baltimore founded
1775 - Captain Cook with Resolution returns to England
1825 - Malden Island is discovered.
1863 - Henry Ford, Dearborn Township Michigan, industrialist and auto maker (Ford- model T), (d. 1947)
1909 - Wright Brothers deliver 1st military plane to the army
1971 - US Apollo 15 (Scott & Irwin) lands on Mare Imbrium on the Moon
1980 - Vanuatu (New Hebrides) gains independence from Britain & France
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1783 - Skaptar Volcano on Iceland erupts killing about 9,000
1851 - Annibale de Gasparis discovers asteroid 15 Eunomia.
1968 - Mount Arenal, Costa Rica kills 80 in Pelee-type eruption
1978 - Pioneer 11 transmits images of Saturn & its rings
2005 - Astronomers announce their discovery of Eris.
2012 - Tropical Storm Khanun kills 88 people and leaves 60,000 homeless in North Korea
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1586 - Sir Thomas Harriot introduces potatoes to Europe on return to England
1741 - Capt Bering discovers Mount St Elias, Alaska
1821 - Peru declares independence from Spain (National Day)
1851 - Total solar eclipse captured on a daguerreotype photograph
1858 - First use of fingerprints as a means of identification is made by Sir William James Herschel of the Indian Civil Service
1858 - Nadar takes 1st airborne photo (in a balloon)
1976 - 242,000 die in Tientsin-Tangshan (China) 8.2 earthquake
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1836 - Adelaide, South Australia, founded
1888 - Philip Pratt unveils 1st electric automobile
1909 - Orville Wright tests 1st US Army airplane, flying 1h12m40s
1922 - International Geographical Union forms in Brussels
1981 – Skopje New Rail Station startet in function.
2014 – Zdravko Dejanovic becomes the first Macedonian climber who reached the peak К2.