2021
Three years worth of rain (14 inches or 300 mm) falls in 12 hours in city of Al Khaburah, Oman, in the wake of tropical cyclone Shaheen.
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2021
Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine awarded to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian for discovering receptors for temperature and touch.
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2017
UK Prime Minister Theresa May was “pink-slipped” during her speech at the Conservative National Conference.
Officially it was a P45 Termination of Employment paper.
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2011
Dark Souls, the second Souls game after Demon’s Souls, was released for PS3 and Xbox 360 in North America.
It wasn’t quite a sequel to Demon’s Souls, but it’s close enough for them to be considered within the same series. Dark Souls was an incredibly well-received game with just one catch: players thought it was way too difficult!
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2006
Julian Assange launched WikiLeaks.com.
WikiLeaks is a website that archives documents, often of a sensitive, governmental nature.
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2001
143 people were killed in a Siberian Airlines plane crash that was shot down by Ukrainian Missiles over the Black Sea.
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1997
The second largest cash robbery in US history was committed.
In Charlotte, North Carolina, the Loomis, Fargo & Co vaults were robbed of $17.3 million! Twenty-four people were convicted for the theft, and 88% of the money was recovered.
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1974
John Lennon’s album “Walls and Bridges” was released in the US.
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1965
Pope John Paul IV visited New York, becoming the first Pope to visit the Western Hemisphere.
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1957
Sputnik 1 became Earth’s first artificial satellite to go into orbit.
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1927
Gutzon Borglum began sculpting Mount Rushmore.
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1918
The musical “Sometime” put on its first performance at the Shubert Theatre on Broadway, New York City, US.
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1883
The Orient Express started its first journey from Paris to Istanbul.
The original journey stopped in Germany, Austria, Romania, Serbia, and Bulgaria.
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1675
The pocket watch patent was awarded to Dutch mathematician and scientist Christiaan Huygens.
Huygens also patented the first pendulum clock in 1656.
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1582
Pope Gregory XIII introduced the concept of the Gregorian Calendar to Europe.
Some European countries didn’t adopt the calendar until October 15 due to a delay in communication.
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1535
The first complete English Bible translation was published.
William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale completed the Matthew Bible.
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