2016
The Paris Agreement was opened for signatures.
The Agreement itself came up for debate during the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in France. It addressed the issue of rising global temperatures due to excessive greenhouse gas emissions, with the aim of curbing Earths’ largest polluter’s emissions significantly. 174 countries, in addition to the entire European Union, signed the agreement on the first day.
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1994
President Richard Nixon died of a stroke at the age of 81.
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1994
Michael Moorer claimed the heavyweight boxing title after smashing Evander Holyfield in Paradise, Nevada, US.
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1981
Thieves stole $3.3 million from the First National Bank of Arizona in Tucson.
It was the largest robbery in US history at the time.
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1970
Twenty million Americans mobilized to call for greater protections for our planet. This became the world’s first Earth Day.
At the time, 20 million people was equal to 10% of the US population.
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1969
Sir Robin Knox-Johnston completed the world’s first non-stop, single-handed global circumnavigation.
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1944
Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini met in Salzburg, Austria.
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1915
The German army used chlorine gas for the first time.
As expected by German chemists, the gas was highly effective in clearing out enemy trenches, and was used many times throughout the rest of the war.
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1884
General Laborer Thomas Stevens started his first bicycle trip around the world.
The journey took two years and nine months.
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1876
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky composed his “Swan Lake” ballet.
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1864
The US Congress passed legislation that allowed the “In God We Trust” inscription on the currency.
The inscription was added to one-cent and two-cent coins. The legislation is known as the Coinage Act of 1864.
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1692
Edward & Sarah Bishop and seven others were examined by Magistrates in Salem, Massachusetts, for witchcraft.
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1529
Spain and Portugal signed the Treaty of Saragossa.
It extended the line from the Treaty of Tordesillas to fully divide the world in half between the two colonial powers.
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1056
The final gasps of the Crab Head nebula were observed as it went supernova.
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