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421 - Venice is founded at twelve o'clock noon, according to legend.
1584 - English explorer, writer and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is granted a patent to colonize Virginia.
1655 - Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christiaan Huygens.
1928 – Роден е Џим Ловел, американски астронаут.
1979 - The first fully functional space shuttle orbiter Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch.
1992 - Soviet Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev returns to Earth after a 10-month stay aboard the Mir space station.
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1925 - Tri-State Tornado: Tornadoes break out across the Midwestern states of Missouri, Illinois and Indiana, killing 695 people.
1944 - The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Italy kills 26 and causes thousands to flee their homes.
1953 - An earthquake hits western Turkey killing 250.
1965 - Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space.
1971 - In Peru a landslide crashes into Lake Yanahuani killing 200 at the mining camp of Chungar.
1980 - in Russia, 50 people are killed by an explosion of a Vostok-2M rocket on its launch pad during a fueling operation.
1989 - In Egypt, a 4,400-year-old mummy is found nearby the Pyramid of Giza.
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1521 - Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Philippines
1861 - The Kingdom of Italy (1861–1946) is proclaimed.
1921 – Was born Ivan Nestorovski, an Macedonian geologist.
1958 - The United States launches the Vanguard 1 satellite.
1963 - Mount Agung erupted on Bali killing 11,000.
2013 - The largest meteorite (since NASA started observing the moon in 2005) hit the moon.
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1521 - Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Philippines.
1621 - Samoset, a Mohegan, visited the settlers of Plymouth Colony and greets them, "Welcome, Englishmen! My name is Samoset."
1926 - Robert Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.
1939 Hungary annexes republic of Karpato-Ukraine
1962 1st launching of Titan 2-rocket
1966 - Gemini 8 (human spaceflight); the 12th manned American space flight and first space docking with the Agena Target Vehicle.
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1493 - Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first trip to the Americas.
1778 - Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island discovered by Captain Cook
1812 - 1st Russian settlement in California, Russian River
1820 - Maine becomes the 23rd U.S. state.
1848 - A revolution breaks out in Hungary. The Habsburg rulers are compelled to meet the demands of the Reform party.
1957 - Great Britain becomes the third nation to explode a nuclear bomb
1958 - USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
1960 - National Observatory at Kitt Peak, Arizona dedicated
1998 - An earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale hits southeastern Iran
1999 - Pluto again becomes outermost planet
2001 - The world's largest oil rig, located off Brazil and operated by Petrobras, suffers three explosions
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