2021
Marvel superhero film “Spider-Man: No Way Home” starring Tom Holland, Zendaya and Benedict Cumberbatch, directed by Jon Watts, premieres in Los Angeles.
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2021
First COVID-19 Omicron death in the UK reported by PM Boris Johnson.
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2017
The online dictionary, Merriam-Webster, stated their most searched word of the year was “Feminism.”
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2014
A civil rights protest march in Washington, D.C., took place.
As a call to attention to unarmed black citizens being wrongfully killed by police, thousands protested for the Black Lives Matter civil rights movement in D.C.
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2013
Beyoncé’s fifth studio album, “Beyoncé,” was released.
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2013
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug was released in theaters in the US.
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2001
A Beautiful Mind, based on the biography by Sylvia Nasar, directed by Ron Howard, premiered in Los Angeles.
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1989
Driving Miss Daisy, directed by Bruce Beresford, was released.
It went on to win Best Picture.
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1972
The third and last moonwalk of the Apollo 17 mission began.
Astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt stepped out of the Moon lander at 5:25 p.m. EST and took the rover for a ride to collect a range of samples, including a piece of rock that has furthered studies of what the Moon’s core is made from. The moonwalk took a total of seven hours and fifteen minutes.
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1962
NASA launched the first-ever active repeater communications satellite.
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1961
The Beatles signed on with their first formal manager, Brian Epstein.
Epstein ran a record shop in Liverpool and wrote for a column when he first heard of The Beatles and rushed to meet them. After badgering them for a few months, he finally convinced them to take him on as their manager. He was sometimes called “the fifth Beatle” due to his significant role in raising the band to stardom.
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1928
The clip-on tie was designed.
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1759
The first music store in America was opened in Philadelphia by Michael Hillegas.
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1758
The English transport ship Duke William sank in the North Atlantic, killing over 360 people.
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1642
The first European explorer discovered New Zealand.
Abel Tasman from the Netherlands sighted the South Island, which he initially called Staten Landt, thinking it was part of South America. A year later, he changed the name to Nieuw Zeeland.
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1577
Sir Francis Drake set sail from England on a circumnavigation of the world.
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1294
Pope Celestine V resigned after just five months in the job to return to his life as an ascetic hermit.
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