2020
A COVID-19 quarantine hotel collapsed in China, leaving 70 people trapped.
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2009
Brazilian soccer athlete Neymar da Silva Santos Jr. started his professional career at just 17 years old.
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1996
The Hubble Space Telescope captured the first images of the surface of Pluto.
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1986
US Air Force divers located the Challenger Space Shuttle’s crew cabin at the bottom of the ocean.
On January 28, 1986, the Challenger Space Shuttle broke up just 73 seconds after launching from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. While the crew cabin wasn’t designed to be escapable, the search for it was crucial to recover the seven crew member’s bodies. The crew cabin was found at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, just off the coast from Florida.
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1968
Newsroom on BBC2 switched to color, making it the first color news in the UK.
Any regional material used was still black and white due to limited access to color facilities.
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1965
Activists started a 54 mile (87 km) march from Selma to Montgomery.
Up to 600 nonviolent activists marched to enable African American citizens the right to vote. Video footage shows brutal attacks on the protestors, with one protestor, Amelia Boynton, beaten until she was unconscious.
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1946
Citizens of Bikini Island evacuated for nuclear testing.
167 Micronesian citizens were asked to relocate temporarily so the US Government could test atomic bombs on their homeland. The inhabitants relocated 125 miles away on an uninhabited atoll which they believed to be haunted.
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1929
The first non-stop flight from America to Asia took place.
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1926
The first telephone call was made across the Atlantic – from London to New York.
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1914
Prince Wilhelm of Wied arrived in Albania to begin his reign as King.
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1897
Dr. John Kellogg served the world’s first cornflakes.
The doctor believed that a strict diet would benefit his patients at a mental hospital in Battle Creek, Michigan.
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1814
Napoleon I of France won the Battle of Craonne, stopping Russian and Prussian forces in Northern France.
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