2022
A fireball was spotted over southern Mississippi.
Numerous residents reported hearing loud booms across Clairborne County, which NASA later confirmed as a meteor. There were no injuries or reports of property damage.
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2017
The first guests arrived at Fyre Festival, unaware that it was all a lie.
Attendees arrived at the festival expecting luxury, but instead found it to be a complete fraud. Headliners like Blink-182 had withdrawn, catering was limited to bread with cheese, and accommodations consisted of rain-soaked mattresses.
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2013
Michael Jordan married his second wife, Yvette Prieto, at Palm Beach, Florida, US.
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2005
The Airbus A380 passenger airliner successfully underwent its maiden flight.
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1986
Pripyat and surrounding areas were evacuated due to the Chernobyl disaster.
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1982
John Hinckley Jr., President Reagan’s failed assassin, pleaded “not guilty” due to not being mentally sound at trial.
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1961
NASA launched the Explorer 11 satellite atop a Juno II rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
The Explorer 11 satellite was the first to carry a gamma-ray telescope into space. Explorer 11’s mission was to test the use of this satellite in detecting high-energy gamma rays and mapping their directions. Explorer 11 functioned for just seven months, returning data related to 22 bursts of gamma rays and 22,000 solar radiation events.
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1947
Babe Ruth Day was commemorated for the first time to celebrate one of baseball’s greatest players of all time.
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1943
Witold Pilecki escaped Auschwitz.
Pilecki volunteered to enter the concentration camp to build a resistance from within its walls. He passed on information about the gas chambers and sterilization experiments.
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1940
Heinrich Himmler ordered the construction of the Auschwitz Concentration Camp.
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1931
Hawaii recorded its hottest day ever at 100°F.
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1904
The Australian Labor Party led the world’s first Labor Government.
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1810
Beethoven composed his famous short piano piece, “Für Elise.”
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1773
Britain implemented a Tea Act against its American colonies.
The act was put in place to stop a major tea company from going bankrupt but led to the company creating a monopoly on American tea.
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1296
King Edward I of England fought the Scots to punish King John Balliol for not being an ally against France with England.
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