2020
Charli D’Amelio became the most followed person on TikTok with 64.5 million followers.
On this day, Charli overtook the previous most followed person, Loren Gray.
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2019
The first kidney transplant between two persons with HIV occurred in Boston, Massachusetts, US.
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2018
Qantas flight QF9 became the first to fly nonstop from Australia to the UK.
The craft was a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner. There were 230 passengers on board for the 17 hour and 6-minute journey.
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2017
The world’s largest banana split was made in Innisfail, Australia.
The feat was achieved with the use of 40,000 bananas and was an incredible 5 miles (8 km) long!
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2015
Zayn Malik announced that he would be leaving the boyband One Direction.
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1996
The EU banned all British beef exports due to the risks of carrying “mad cow disease.”
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1982
Wayne Gretzky became the first and only player in NHL history to score 200 points in a season.
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1979
The world’s first fully-functional space shuttle, Columbia, was delivered to the JFK Space Center.
Construction of the Columbia Space Shuttle began just four years earlier, with many of its features copied over from the first experimental space shuttle, the Enterprise. On April 12, 1981, Columbia made its first flight on mission STS-1. It flew 28 missions in total, with the final mission ending in complete disaster when it broke up in Earth’s atmosphere during re-entry.
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1954
The first color TV went on sale.
The set was by RCA, and the screen size was just 12.5″ while setting the buyer back $1,000.
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1915
The SF F-4 submersible boat sank and killed 21 people near Hawaii.
This was the first submarine incident of its kind.
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1857
Frederick Langenheim took the first photo of a solar eclipse.
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1807
The Slave Trade Act was passed in the British Parliament.
The act did not abolish the slave trade in the British Empire. It only fined those found transporting slaves, at £120 GBP per slave.
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1668
The US held its first horse race in Long Island, New York.
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