2020
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Demo-2 launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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2014
Seth MacFarlane’s “A Million Ways to Die in the West” was released to theaters.
It was MacFarlane’s first live-action role on the big screen.
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2003
Finding Nemo, directed by Andrew Stanton, was released in the US & Canada.
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1998
A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hit northern Afghanistan, which killed around 5,000 people.
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1987
Mike Tyson won a technical knockout against Pinklon Thomas, winning the heavyweight boxing title.
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1982
Spain officially became the 16th member of NATO.
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1972
The Angry Brigade went to trial.
After a series of 25 bombings throughout Britain, the Angry Brigade was prosecuted in one of the longest criminal trials of English history. As a result of the trial, John Barker, Jim Greenfield, Hilary Creek, and Anna Mendelssohn received prison sentences of 10 years.
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1971
The US Mariner 9 was launched – it went on to become the first satellite to orbit Mars.
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1964
Love Me Do by The Beatles hit number one on US charts.
It stayed at the Top 100 for 14 weeks.
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1942
The first 1,000 Royal Air force bomber raid dropped 38 thousand tons of bombs on Cologne, Germany.
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1913
The First Balkan War came to an end with the signing of the Treaty of London.
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1806
Andrew Jackson killed Charles Dickinson in a duel.
After Dickinson accused Jackson of cheating on a horse race bet, then insulting his wife, Jackson challenged him to a duel. In the duel, Dickinson wounded Jackson, but Jackson shot him in the chest, and he bled to death.
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1574
Henry III became the King of France.
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1431
Joan of Arc was burned at the stake.
For her execution, Joan of Arc asked two of the clergy to hold a crucifix in front of her. After her death, they burned the body two more times to turn it into ash and threw her ashes in the Seine river to prevent anyone from collecting her ashes.
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