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On this day in the year 1980
Following a global vaccination program, the WHO officially declared that smallpox was eradicated; for centuries, the acute infectious disease was one of the world's most-dreaded plagues.
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On this day in the year 1946
Sony Corporation, a major Japanese manufacturer of consumer electronics products, was founded by Ibuka Masaru and Morita Akio.
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On this day in the year 1998
Steve Jobs introduced Apple's first iMac, a personal computer that became hugely successful and helped revive the struggling company.
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On this day in the year 1960
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev told the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R. that a U.S. spy plane piloted by Francis Gary Powers had been shot down on May 1 over the Soviet Union; Khrushchev referred to the flight as an “aggressive act” by the United States.
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On this day in the year 1961
Alan Shepard, Jr., made a 15-minute suborbital flight in the Freedom 7 spacecraft, becoming the first U.S. astronaut to travel in space.
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On this day in the year 1961
The first Freedom Ride—a political protest against the segregation of interstate bus travel in the South—began as a group of white and Black Americans departed Washington, D.C., on buses bound for New Orleans.
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On this day in the year 1978
Users of ARPANET received an ad that was believed to be the first spam e-mail.
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On this day in the year 1946
An attempted prison escape by six inmates at Alcatraz resulted in two days of violent fighting, which became known as the Battle of Alcatraz.
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On this day in the year 1611
The King James Version of the Bible was first published.
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On this day in the year 1960
While on a reconnaissance flight deep inside the Soviet Union, a U.S. U-2 plane was shot down and its pilot—Francis Gary Powers, who worked for the CIA—was taken prisoner; the resulting confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union became known as the U-2 Incident.
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On this day in the year 1866
The Memphis race riot began as members of the city's white majority attacked Black residents, 46 of whom were killed; the unprovoked violence helped to win passage of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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On this day in the year 1889
May Day—traditionally a celebration of the return of spring, marked by dancing around a Maypole—was first observed as a labour holiday, designated as such by the International Socialist Congress.
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On this day in the year 1789
George Washington, the first president of the United States, was inaugurated this day in 1789 in Federal Hall in New York City, addressing his constituency on “the proceedings of a new and free government.”
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On this day in the year 1992
Riots erupted in Los Angeles in response to the verdict of a highly publicized trial of four white Los Angeles police officers who were acquitted of charges related to the 1991 beating of Rodney King, a black motorist who had resisted arrest.
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On this day in the year 1967
At the height of the Vietnam War American boxer Muhammad Ali refused induction into the U.S. Army, citing religious reasons; his subsequent conviction was eventually overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court.
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On this day in the year 2001
American businessman Dennis Tito became the first space tourist when he was launched into orbit aboard a Russian supply mission to the International Space Station; he paid approximately $ 20 million for the six-day trip.
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On this day in the year 1986
A devastating environmental catastrophe occurred early this morning in 1986 when an explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine released large amounts of radioactive material into the atmosphere.
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On this day in the year 1990
The Hubble Space Telescope, a sophisticated optical observatory built in the United States under the supervision of NASA, was placed into operation this day in 1990 by the crew of the space shuttle Discovery.
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On this day in the year 1967
Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov became the first man to die during a space mission when his spacecraft became entangled in its parachute during an attempted landing.
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On this day in the year 2005
The first video—which was of YouTube cofounder Jawed Karim's visit to the San Diego Zoo—was uploaded on the YouTube Web site; approximately one year later the site had some 100 million videos.
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On this day in the year 1970
First celebrated on this day in 1970 in the U.S., Earth Day—founded by American politician and conservationist Gaylord Anton Nelson—helped spark the environmental movement and quickly grew into an international event.
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On this day in the year 1986
In a much-hyped television special, American journalist Geraldo Rivera opened a vault that was found in the former headquarters of Chicago gangster Al Capone; however, he and an estimated 30 million TV viewers discovered that it was empty.
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On this day in the year 2021
Derek Chauvin, a former police officer, was found guilty of killing George Floyd, an unarmed African American man whose neck he knelt on while attempting to arrest him in 2020; Floyd's death caused massive protests against police brutality and brought renewed attention to the Black Lives Matter movement.
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On this day in the year 1775
Launched this day in 1775 with the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the American Revolution was an effort by 13 British colonies in North America (with help from France, Spain, and the Netherlands) to win their independence.
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On this day in the year 1955
Albert Einstein Died April 18, 1955, Princeton, New Jersey, U.S. German-born physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity and won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921 for his explanation of the photoelectric effect. Einstein is generally considered the most influential physicist of the 20th century.
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On this day in the year 1961
Cuban leader Fidel Castro's forces repelled the Bay of Pigs invasion, which was led by recent Cuban exiles and financed by the U.S. government during the Cold War.
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On this day in the year 2003
At age 40, Michael Jordan, widely regarded as the best player in the history of basketball, played his last game in the National Basketball Association.
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On this day in the year 1947
Jackie Robinson, who broke baseball's racial barrier, played in his first major league game for the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field.
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On this day in the year 1955
American fast-food pioneer Ray Kroc opened the first McDonald's franchise, launching an enterprise that would eventually become the world's largest fast-food chain, in Des Plaines, Illinois.
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On this day in the year 1912
The British luxury passenger liner Titanic sank en route to New York City from Southampton, Hampshire, England, after striking an iceberg during its maiden voyage; some 1,500 people died.
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On this day in the year 2021
American hedge-fund investment manager Bernie Madoff, who operated the world's largest Ponzi scheme, died in federal prison at the age of 82.
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On this day in the year 1997
Tiger Woods won the Masters Tournament, becoming the first golfer of African American descent and the youngest player to place first in the event.
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On this day in the year 1961
Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in outer space.
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On this day in the year 1815
The eruption of Mount Tambora, a volcano on the island of Sumbawa in what is now Indonesia, killed about 10,000 people.
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On this day in the year 1988
After taking a decade to build, the Seto Great Bridge, spanning the Inland Sea in Japan, was opened to traffic.
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On this day in the year 2019
Astronomers released the first-ever image of a black hole, which is in the centre of the massive galaxy M87.
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On this day today
Most practitioners of Buddhism in Japan celebrate the birth of the Buddha, who lived in India sometime between the 6th and the 4th century bce.
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On this day in the year 1948
The World Health Organization, a specialized agency of the UN, was formally established.
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On this day in the year 2009
American basketball player Michael Jordan, widely considered the game's greatest all-around player, was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
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On this day in the year 1984
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar surpassed Wilt Chamberlain as the all-time leading scorer in the National Basketball Association.
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On this day in the year 1975
Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded Microsoft, which became the world's largest personal-computer software company.
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On this day in the year 1968
Martin Luther King, Jr., a leader of the American civil rights movement who was in Memphis, Tennessee, to support a strike by the city's sanitation workers, was assassinated by James Earl Ray.
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On this day in the year 1968
At an event for the Memphis sanitation workers strike, American civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered his Mountaintop Speech; the following day he was assassinated.
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On this day in the year (unknown)
April Fools' Day, celebrated today with joking relationships and practical jokes, may have grown out of the medieval Feast of Fools, which was held on January 1.
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On this day in the year 1889
The 984-foot (300-metre) Eiffel Tower, a wrought iron technological masterpiece created by Gustave Eiffel to commemorate the centenary of the French Revolution, was officially inaugurated in Paris this day in 1889.
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On this day in the year 1930
Built as Byzantium about 657 bce, then renamed Constantinople in the 4th century ce after Constantine the Great made the city his capital, the Turkish city of Istanbul officially received its present name on this day in 1930.
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On this day in the year 1915
American domestic Mary Mallon, better known as Typhoid Mary, was placed under a quarantine on North Brother Island, New York City, that lasted until her death in 1938; a typhoid carrier, she was allegedly responsible for multiple outbreaks of typhoid fever.
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On this day in the year 2000
Russian intelligence officer and politician Vladimir Putin was elected president of Russia.
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On this day in the year 1965
Martin Luther King, Jr., and other civil rights activists completed their march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama; two previous marches had been halted by local police.
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On this day in the year 2002
Film stars Denzel Washington and Halle Berry became the second and third African Americans to win Academy Awards for performances in leading roles.