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1819 - The Savannah Ferry is the first overseas ship, crossing the Atlantic Ocean.
1840 - Samuel Morse patented the kind of telegraph.
1863 - West Virginia is recognized as a 35 state in the United States.
1895 - The first female Doctor of Science is Caroline Willard Baldwin from the American University.
1895 - Nicaragua, El Salvador and Honduras form a short-term confederation.
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1586 - English colonists leave the island of Roanoke after an unsuccessful attempt to form the first permanent landing in North America.
1764 – Was born John Barrow, England, founder of the Royal Geographical Society.
1846 – Was born Antonio Abetti, an Italian astronomer.
1862 - Congress in the United States abolishes slavery in its territory.
1910 - Kuwait declares independence from the United Kingdom.
1963 - The second Russian space mission returns to Earth.
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1453 - Died Constantine XI Palaeologus - the last Roman (Byzantine) emperor. Legend has it that when the Ottomans entered Constantinople, an angel saved the emperor and placed him in a cave under the Golden Gate, where he waits to be brought back to life when Constantinople will again become a Christian city. Constantinople, the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire falls under the authority of Muhammad II, which marked the end of the Byzantine Empire.
1721 - South Carolina was formally incorporated as a Crown Colony.
1727 - Peter II becomes King of the age of two.
1848 - Wisconsin becomes the 30th state of the United States.
1851 - In Akron is taken first Convention on the Rights of the black woman.
1922 - Ecuador becomes independent state.
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1818 - The first steamship sails into the Great Lakes.
1900 - Solar Eclipse.
1937 - opened for traffic the bridge Golden Gate, San Francisco.
1938 - Laid the foundations of the port of Tel Aviv.
1963 - Cyclone strikes it Chittagong, Bagladesh, about 1 million homes have been destroyed.
1975 - launched a Soyuz 18th
1971 - The Soviet Union launches the automatic space probe "Mars 3" weighing five tons.
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1120 - Richard III of Capua named Prince, two weeks before his untimely death.
1703 - Russian Czar Peter the Great, where the river Neva in the Baltic, base city, which according to him is called St. Petersburg (1914), St. Petersburg (until 1924), Leningrad (until 1992), and then again St. Petersburg. From 1712 to 1918 the city was the capital of the Russian Empire.
1883 - Tsar Alexander III was crowned in Moscow.
1957 - was released into operation the first unit of the HPP "Vrutok".
1958 - was launched Vanguard SLV-1 into Earth orbit.
1958 - The first flight of the F-4 Phantom II.
1969 - Begins the construction of Walt Disney World.
1996 - Republic of Macedonia and the United Arab Emirates established diplomatic relations at ambassadorial level.