2022
The FDA authorized the first breathalyzer test that detects COVID-19.
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2015
The children’s cooking show, Matilda and the Ramsay Bunch, premiered on CBBC in the UK.
Gordon Ramsay’s daughter, Matilda, was just 14 years old when the first season aired. The young culinary enthusiast wrote and starred in her own series, which covered five series, with 75 episodes in total.
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2003
The Human Genome Project was completed in London, England.
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1999
NATO accidentally bombed a refugee convoy in Kosovo, killing seventy-three.
NATO claimed that the bombing was a mistake, and they believed the convoy to be a military convoy.
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1988
The Soviet Union agreed to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan.
Representatives from the USSR, the US, Afghanistan, and Pakistan met in Geneva, Switzerland, to sign the Geneva Accords. For the most part, this agreement dictated on what terms the Soviet Union would withdraw from Afghanistan. As a result, most of the USSR’s troops were removed by the end of the year, with the last troops leaving by February 15 the following year.
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1978
Demonstrations broke out in Tbilisi, Georgia, after attempts by the USSR to repress the Georgian language.
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1958
Sputnik 2 soviet spacecraft burned up, returning through Earth’s atmosphere.
The craft carried a dog, Laika, who was found dead inside.
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1944
5,200 Jews from Athens arrived at Auschwitz.
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1912
The Titanic collided with an iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland at 23:40 and started to sink.
The iceberg created a gash that was between 220 and 245 feet long.
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1902
J.C. Penney’s opened their first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
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1865
President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
On this day, Lincoln was enjoying a play called “Our American Cousin” at Ford’s Theatre, Washington, D.C. The well-known actor John Wilkes Booth shot the president in the head, and he died the following day.
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1828
America published the country’s first American Dictionary of English Language.
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1792
The French Revolutionary War began after France declared war on Austria.
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43 BC
The Battle of Forum Gallorum took place to besiege Julius Caesar’s assassin, Decimus Junius Brutus.
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