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1519 - Francisco Pizarro receives royal charter for the west coast of South America
1579 - Francis Drake leaves San Francisco to cross Pacific Ocean
1805 - Naples/Calabria struck by Earthquake; about 26,000 die
1865 - The capital of New Zealand moves from Auckland to Wellington
1887 - 1st Esperanto book published
1963 - A catastrophic earthquake devastated the capital of Macedonia, Skopje. Кilled 1 070 people, injured 2 900 and destroyed or damaged 4/5 of the housing fund.
1965 - Republic of Maldives gains independence from Britain (Natl Day).
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1636 - University of Utrecht opening ceremony
1971 - Bangladesh (East Pakistan) declares its independence
1804 - Congress orders removal of Indians east of Mississippi to Louisiana
1804 - Territory of Orleans organizes in Louisiana Purchase
1812 - Earthquake destroys 90% of Caracas, Venezuela; about 20,000 die
1863 - Voters in West Virginia approve gradual emancipation of slaves
1931 - New Delhi replaces Calcutta as capital of British-Indies
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1534 - Jacques Cartier lands in Canada, claims it for France
1683 - 1st settlers from Germany to US, leave aboard Concord
1715 - Spanish fleet with treasure consisted of 10 ships left Havana, Cuba to Spain. Seven days later, nine ships sank in a storm near Florida. The treasure is found and pulled from the sea in the 1960s.
1823 - Slavery is abolished in Chile.
1908 - Turkey was declared a constitutional monarchy. This date was declared as the Victory Day of the Young Turk revolution.
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1745 - Charles Stuart, the Younger, lands at Eriskay Island, Hebrides
1930 - Earthquake strikes Ariano Italy, 1,500 killed
1972 - 1st Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS) is launched
1980 - Soyuz 37 ferries 2 cosmonauts (1 Vietnamese) to Salyut 6
1993 – Republic of Macedonia becomes 138 member of членка на World Intellectual Property Organization.
1994 - Space shuttle STS-65: Columbia 17, lands after record 14 days 55 mins.
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1587 - 2nd English colony forms on Roanoke Island off NC
1784 - Friedrich W Bessel, German astronomer (star parallax, Bessel Function)
1796 - Cleveland, Ohio, founded by Gen Moses Cleveland
1888 - Kirk Bryan, American geologist (d. 1950)
1933 - 1st solo flight round the world 7d 19hrs (Wiley Post)
1962 - 1st US Venus probe, Mariner 1, fails at lift-off