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SpaceX's Starship rocket, the largest and most powerful rocket ever built, launches for the first time. It explodes four minutes into flight.

2023

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State of Minnesota v. Derek Michael Chauvin: Derek Chauvin is found guilty of all charges in the murder of George Floyd by the Fourth Judicial District Court of Minnesota.

2021

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For the first time in history, oil prices drop below zero, an effect of the 2020 Russia-Saudi Arabia oil price war.

2020

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Ten people are killed in a bomb attack on a convoy carrying food supplies to a United Nations compound in Garowe in the Somali region of Puntland.

2015

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A 6.6-magnitude earthquake strikes Lushan County, Ya'an, in China's Sichuan province, killing at least 193 people and injuring thousands.

2013

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One hundred twenty-seven people are killed when a plane crashes in a residential area near the Benazir Bhutto International Airport near Islamabad, Pakistan.

2012

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The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven workers and beginning an oil spill that lasted six months.

2010

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Danica Patrick wins the Indy Japan 300, becoming the first female driver in history to win an Indy car race.

2008

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Johnson Space Center shooting: William Phillips barricades himself with a handgun in NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, before killing a male hostage and himself.

2007

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The Nicoll Highway in Singapore collapses, killing four workers.

2004

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Columbine High School massacre: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 14 people and injure 23 others before committing suicide at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado.

1999

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Air France Flight 422 crashes after taking off from El Dorado International Airport in Bogotá, Colombia, killing all 53 people on board.

1998

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University of California, Riverside 1985 laboratory raid: Animal Liberation Front rescues 467 animals being tested in a lab at University of California, Riverside in Riverside, California, causing $700,000 in damages to the laboratory, in advocacy for animal rights.

1985

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Apollo program: The Apollo 16 Lunar Module Orion, commanded by John Young and piloted by Charles Duke, lands on the Moon.

1972

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English politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial "Rivers of Blood" speech.

1968

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South African Airways Flight 228 crashes near J.G. Strijdom Airport in South West Africa (now Hosea Kutako International Airport in Namibia), killing 123 people.

1968

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Cold War: Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US-backed Cuban exiles against Cuba.

1961

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Amethyst incident: The People's Liberation Army attacks HMS Amethyst (F116) travelling to the British embassy in Nanjing during the Chinese Civil War.

1949

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The League of Nations officially dissolves, giving most of its power to the United Nations.

1946

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World War II: U.S. troops capture Leipzig, Germany, only to later cede the city to the Soviet Union.

1945

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World War II: Führerbunker: On his 56th birthday Adolf Hitler makes his last trip to the surface to award Iron Crosses to boy soldiers of the Hitler Youth.

1945

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Twenty Jewish children used in medical experiments at Neuengamme are killed in the basement of the Bullenhuser Damm school.

1945

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The Soviet government creates the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast within the Georgian SSR.

1922

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Manfred von Richthofen, a.k.a. The Red Baron, shoots down his 79th and 80th victims, his final victories before his death the following day.

1918

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Nineteen men, women, and children participating in a strike are killed in the Ludlow Massacre during the Colorado Coalfield War.

1914

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Opening day of competition in the New South Wales Rugby League.

1908

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Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride.

1902

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U.S. President William McKinley signs a joint resolution to Congress for declaration of war against Spain, beginning the Spanish–American War.

1898

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Pope Leo XIII publishes the encyclical Humanum genus, condemning Freemasonry.

1884

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The April Uprising begins. Its suppression shocks European opinion, and Bulgarian independence becomes a condition for ending the Russo-Turkish War.

1876

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Astronomer Angelo Secchi demonstrates the Secchi disk, which measures water clarity, aboard Pope Pius IX's yacht, the L'Immaculata Concezion.

1865

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Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard complete the experiment disproving the theory of spontaneous generation.

1862

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American Civil War: Robert E. Lee resigns his commission in the United States Army in order to command the forces of the state of Virginia.

1861

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Thaddeus S. C. Lowe, attempting to display the value of balloons, makes record journey, flying 900 miles from Cincinnati to South Carolina.

1861

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U.S. Congress passes an act creating the Wisconsin Territory.

1836

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René Caillié becomes the second non-Muslim to enter Timbuktu, following Major Gordon Laing. He would also be the first to return alive.

1828

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Two Austrian army corps in Bavaria are defeated by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon at the Battle of Abensberg on the second day of a four-day campaign that ended in a French victory.

1809

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The Septinsular Republic is established.

1800

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France declares war against the "King of Hungary and Bohemia", the beginning of the French Revolutionary Wars.

1792

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George Washington arrives at Grays Ferry, Philadelphia, while en route to Manhattan for his inauguration.

1789

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The Georgian king, Erekle II, abandoned by his Russian ally Count Totleben, wins a victory over Ottoman forces at Aspindza.

1770

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Start of Konbaung–Hanthawaddy War, a new phase in the Burmese Civil War (1740–57).

1752

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English Admiral Robert Blake destroys a Spanish silver fleet, under heavy fire from the shore, at the Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

1657

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Freedom of religion is granted to the Jews of New Amsterdam (later New York City).

1657

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Oliver Cromwell dissolves England's Rump Parliament.

1653

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The Sapienza University of Rome is instituted by a bull of Pope Boniface VIII.

1303

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The Bahri Mamluks defeat the Ilkhanate in the battle of Marj al-Saffar, marking the end of the Mongol incursions into Syria.

1303

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After an eight-year conflict, Baldwin III of Jerusalem wins sole control of the Kingdom of Jerusalem from his mother Melisende.

1152

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