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1795 - "Marseillaise" becomes French national anthem
1856 - Natal forms as a British colony separate from Cape Colony
1888 - Bandai volcano (Japan) erupts for 1st time in 1,000 years
1929 - 1st airport hotel opens-Oakland Ca
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1671 - Jacques D'Allonville, French astronomer and mathematician (d. 1732)
1845 - 1st postmasters' provisional stamps issued, NYC
1927 - 1st commercial airplane flight in Hawaii
1940 - Lithuania becomes Lithuanian SSR
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1772 - Captain James Cook begins 2nd voyage aboard the Resolution to the South Seas to search for Terra Australis (Southern continent).
1832 - Source of Mississippi River discovered (Henry R Schoolcraft).
1858 - Stewart Culin, American ethnographer (d. 1929).
1923 - American explorer Roy Chapman Andrews discovers the first recognised dinosaur eggs, in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
1934 - Aleksei Stanislavovich Yeliseyev, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 5, 8, 10).
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1580 - Ostrog Bible, the first printed Bible in a Slavic language, is published.
1785 - 1st manned flight by gas balloon in Netherlands
1850 - Otto Schoetensack, German anthropologist (d. 1912)
1920 - Lithuania & USSR sign peace treaty, Lithuania becomes independent republic
1960 - Congo, Chad & Central African Republic declare independence
1960 - Echo I, 1st passive satellite launched
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1735 - Mathematical calculations suggest that it was on this day that Pluto moved from the ninth to the eighth most distant planet from the Sun for the last time before 1979.
1776 - Captain James Cook begins his third voyage
1781 - Thomas Hutchins designated Geographer of US
1801 - French astronomer Jean-Louis Pons discovers his 1st comet
1921 - Mongolia gains independence from China (National Day)
1975 - Chinese archeologists discover a 3-acre burial site with 6,000 clay statues of warriors dating as early as 221 BC
1979 - US Skylab enters atmosphere over Australia & disintegrates