2021
Supergiant Games released their most ambitious game to date, Hades, on PC, Switch, and macOS.
Hades was a huge step up from Supergiant Games’ previous releases in terms of plot and complexity. At the 2020 Golden Joystick Awards, it won both the best Indie Game Award and the Critic’s Choice Award.
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2018
TikTok star Loren Gray released her first song under Capitol Records called “My Story.”
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2014
Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani became the world’s first woman to win the Fields Medal, the most prestigious award in mathematics.
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1997
South Park premiered on Comedy Central, with the first episode titled “Cartman Gets an Anal Probe.”
It was the first weekly show to carry a TV-MA rating.
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1985
A three-year-old boy from Dublin became the world’s youngest heart and lung transplant patient.
Jamie Gavin had the four-hour operation at Harefield Hospital in Middlesex, London.
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1969
After parading around New York City, the Apollo 11 crew was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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1961
Berlin’s city became entirely divided in two, with all borders sealed between the east and west.
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1906
Black soldiers were blamed for raiding a bar in Brownsville, Texas, US.
On this day, a bartender was killed, and an officer was injured. Although the blame was put on black soldiers, the all-white commanders confirmed all personnel was at their barracks.
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1898
Carl Gustav Witt discovered the first near-Earth asteroid, 433 Eros.
The German astronomer was working at the Berlin Urania observatory, taking long-exposure photos of a much more distant asteroid, when he captured evidence of 433 Eros. The stony asteroid is approximately 10.4 miles (16.8 km) in diameter and is elongated in shape.
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1892
The Baltimore Afro-American newspaper was published for the first time.
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1889
Inventor William Gray received a patent for creating the telephone that uses coins to operate it.
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1868
The Arica earthquake occurred in Peru and Ecuador.
On this day, a 9.0 magnitude earthquake shook the two countries and claimed the lives of more than 25,000 people.
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1608
John Smith, famous for setting up the first permanent English colony in the New World, told the first stories about Jamestown.
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523 AD
Saint John I became the Catholic Pope.
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3114 BC
The Mayan calendar started being used.
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