2022
The International Criminal Court opened its first office in Venezuela following allegations of torture and killings by the country’s security forces.
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2020
COVID-19 claimed the life of comedian Eddie Large from “Little and Large.”
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1992
Mafia boss John Gotti was convicted of thirteen murders and racketeering.
On June 10, 2002, John Gotti died from throat cancer while in confinement.
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1989
New York Times Newspaper officially declared that the Cold War was over.
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1982
The Falklands War broke out between Argentina and Britain over the Falkland Islands and lasted ten weeks.
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1979
Sixty-six people died in Sverdlovsk, USSR, when a bio-warfare lab accidentally released airborne anthrax.
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1968
The “2001: A Space Odyssey” sci-fi movie premiered in Washington, DC.
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1964
The Soviet Union’s Zond 1 space probe was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
This was actually the second probe with the name Zond 1 after the previous one failed to launch and was reclassified as Kosmos 21.
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1963
Martin Luther King started his first of many non-violent demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama, US.
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1921
Albert Einstein visited New York City and lectured on his Theory of Relativity for the first time.
Upon his arrival in NYC, Einstein was welcomed by the city’s mayor John Francis Hylan.
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1800
Beethoven performed his first concert “for his benefit” at Austria’s Royal Imperial Court Theatre.
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1792
The Coinage Act was enacted in the US.
It established the first mint in Philadelphia and the federal regulation of coins.
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1513
Explorer Juan Ponce de León found Florida and claimed it for Spain.
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1453
The armies of Sultan Mehmed II arrived at Constantinople’s outer walls and prepared to lay siege to the city.
Mehmed’s armies made camp to the west of the city, the only part which was accessible by land. Thanks to Mehmed’s armies’ expert siegecraft, Constantinople was captured after just fifty-three days.
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