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1817 – Died Abraham Gottlob Werner, a Dutch geologist.
1905 - Albert Einstein refers to the article "Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Körper", which introduced the special theory of relativity. The article will be published on September 26.
1916 – Died Gaston Maspero, an Italian Egyptologist.
1942 – Was born Robert Ballard, an American oceanographer.
1987 - The European Commission has published the Green Telecommunication Book.
1990 - Zaire celebrates thirty years of independence, but for the first time without a Belgian delegation.
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512 - A solar eclipse is observed by an Irish chronicler.
1534 - Jacques Cartier reveals the islands of Prince Edward, Canada.
1904 - Prehistoric bones were discovered in Weerdingerveen, Drenthe, Netherlands.
1916 - The first plane crash on Boeing.
1961 - Transit 4a is launched, first of nuclear power.
1962 - George Zamka, an American astronaut, was born.
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1635 - The French colony of Guadalupe in the Caribbean was formed.
1895 - Labor Day was declared a holiday for federal employees.
1895 - El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua form the Central American Union.
1897 - The expedition of Marquis C de Bonchamps arrives in Gore, Ethiopia.
1914 - Austrian Crown Prince Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie were killed by Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo, the cause of the start of World War I.
1919 - A peace treaty was signed in Versailles, Paris, which ended the First World War.
1976 - The first woman was admitted to the American Academy of Air Force in Colorado Springs Colo.
1993 - Republic of Macedonia becomes a member of UNESCO.
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1358 - The Republic of Dubrovnik is established.
1915 - Records are recorded at 100 ° F (38 ° C) in Fort Yukon, Alaska.
1940 - The USSR again uses the Gregorian calendar.
1954 - In Obvisk, Moskava, Russia, the first atomic power plant in the world opened.
1955 - A law was passed in Illinois for the use of the car's safety lane.
1978 - The first oceanographic satellite US Seasat 1 is launched in full orbit.
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1541 - Conquistador Francisco Pizarro was killed in Lima, today the capital of Peru.
1730 - Charles Joseph Messier, an astronomer, was born on the Messier catalog.
1843 - Hong Kong was declared a British colony.
1927 - Comet 7P / Pons-Winnecke spans Earth at a distance of 0.0394 AUs (astronomical units).
1945 - At a conference in San Francisco, delegates from 50 countries are signing the Charter of the United Nations.
1959 - A waterway was opened between the St. Lawrence River and the Great Lakes.