2022
Child actress Jennette McCurdy released her book “I’m Glad My Mom Died.”
McCurdy rose to fame when she starred in the hit Nickelodeon series iCarly. In the book, she narrated the abuse she received from her mother when she was still a child until her mother died from cancer in 2013.
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2017
An inflatable chicken that resembled US President Donald Trump was placed outside the US White House as part of a political protest.
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2000
The virtual pet video game, Seaman, was released on the Dreamcast in North America.
Seaman was one of the few Sega Dreamcast games to take advantage of the microphone attachment.
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1974
Vice President Gerald Ford was sworn in as the 38th President of the United States after Richard Nixon handed in his resignation.
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1973
The USSR launched the Mars 7 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in modern-day Kazakhstan.
The spacecraft was made of two parts: an orbiter designed to gather data on Mars and a unit designed to detach and land on the planet’s surface. Mars 7 ultimately failed to enter Mars’ atmosphere. Instead, it got stuck in the outer orbit.
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1945
American forces made a second attack on Japan during World War II and dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki.
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1910
Engineer Alva J. Fisher patented the electric washing machine.
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1859
Inventor Otis Tufts patented the first elevator in the US.
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1848
The Free Soil Party was formed by 465 delegates in Buffalo.
The party only lasted until 1854, and they primarily focused on single issues like objecting slavery expansion.
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1803
Inventor Robert Fulton tested his 66-foot long boat on River Seine in Paris, France.
The boat featured an eight-horsepower steam engine and reached 4 miles per hour. Unfortunately, the engine broke the hull.
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1790
American sea Captain Robert Gray returned to Boston after a three-year journey commanding the ship Columbia Rediviva.
The Columbia Rediviva became the first American ship to circumnavigate the globe.
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1673
Admiral Cornelis Evertsen de Jonge led Dutch forces to recapture New York from the English.
Jonge renamed the city “New Orange.” It remained under Dutch control until the English regained it in 1674.
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1173
The foundations for the Tower of Pisa were placed in Italy.
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48 BC
The Battle of Pharsalus ended.
It was the winning battle of Caesar’s Civil War, meaning Julius Caesar had finally defeated Pompey.
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