2021
Steph Curry makes his 2,974th three-point shot to pass Ray Allen as the NBA’s greatest career 3-point shooter during Golden State Warriors’ 105-96 win over NY Knicks at Madison Square Garden.
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2021
Fuel tanker explosion after an accident leaves at least 90 dead in city of Cap-Haitien, Haiti.
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2017
A British surgeon admitted to branding his initials on patients’ livers.
Simon Bramhall, an accomplished surgeon, confessed to using an argon beam to etch his initials onto the livers of two transplant receivers. Fortunately, this did not damage either liver; however, he was charged for assault and fined £10,000.
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2017
A suicide bomber made an attack in Mogadishu, Somalia.
During a police training center parade, a bomber disguised as a policeman blew himself at the police academy. The attack killed 18 police officers and wounded 15 other people. The militant Islamist group al-Shabab took credit for the explosion, which is allied to al-Qaeda.
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2016
Amazon announced its first drone delivery.
Amazon revealed that they had their first order delivery by drone to a house in Cambridge, an order consisting of an Amazon Fire TV and a bag of popcorn. The delivery took just 13 minutes.
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2015
Star Wars: The Force Awakens, directed by J.J. Abrams, had its world premiere at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles.
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1995
The Dayton Agreement was signed in Paris by leaders of various governments. This ended the conflict in the former Yugoslavia.
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1993
Philadelphia premiered in Century City, California. It was one of the first mainstream films about AIDS, directed by Jonathan Demme.
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1980
At 2 PM EST, there was a 10 minute moment of silence in memory of John Lennon.
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1972
Astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison finished the last moonwalk of the Apollo 17 mission.
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1962
The Mariner 2 space probe completed the first-ever flyby of Venus.
Mariner 2 was launched from Cape Canaveral earlier that year on August 27, after the Mariner 1 probe veered off course and was destroyed. The Atlas rocket used to launch both probes proved problematic for the Mariner 2 and sent it off its course, but fortunately, it was able to be corrected mid-flight.
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1939
After invading Finland, the Soviet Union was kicked out of the League of Nations.
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1911
A Norwegian expedition became the first to ever reach the geographical South Pole – led by Roald Amundsen.
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1819
Alabama became the 22nd state to join the United States of America.
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1542
Princess Mary Stuart succeeded her father James V and became Queen Mary I of Scotland at just six days old.
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1287
Northern Germany and the Netherlands were struck by St. Lucia’s flood, killing more than 50,000 people.
One of the most significant floods in history, this catastrophe was caused by a great storm that broke the barriers between the North Sea and what is now the Southern Sea. The loss of life and property was so significant because much of the region was below sea level.
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557 AD
The capital city of the Roman Empire, Constantinople, was severely damaged by an earthquake.
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