2021
Nicki Minaj’s Super Freaky Girl debuted at number one on Billboard’s Hot 100.
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2007
Chris Messina Tweeted #barcamp, which became the first use of a hashtag on Twitter.
Messina co-founded BarCamp, a technology and web event that’s been held in more than 350 cities.
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1990
Armenia declared its independence from the Soviet Union.
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1970
The largest farm worker strike in US history began.
The Salad Bowl Strike, led by the United Farm Workers union, was a series of general strikes, boycotts, and mass pickets to fight for the collective bargaining rights of agricultural workers. The strikes lasted just over seven months. The farm workers got their demands met four years later when the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act was passed into law.
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1966
The first-ever photograph was taken of the Earth from the surface of the Moon.
Lunar Orbiter 1 sent the photo back to earth on this day on its 16th orbit. The photograph was received by the NASA tracking station near Madrid, Spain.
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1948
The World Council of Churches (WCC) was founded with 147 churches from 44 countries.
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1924
Mars had a “close encounter” with Earth at 34.8 million miles apart.
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1914
During World War I, Japan officially declared war on Germany.
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1899
The first-ever message was sent from a ship to the shore at Cliff House, San Francisco.
The message received by the station was, “Sherman is sighted.”
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1873
The Albert Bridge opened in London, England.
The bridge, designed by Rowland Mason Ordish, crosses the River Thames connecting Chelsea to Battersea. It is 710 feet long, 41 feet wide, and 66 feet high.
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1799
Napoleon Bonaparte left Egypt to return home to France.
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1793
During the French Revolution, a mass levy was adopted, making it compulsory for any able-bodied men aged 18 to 25 to join military service.
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1541
French explorer Jacques Cartier arrived in the city of Quebec during his third voyage to Canada.
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1305
Scottish knight William Wallace was executed for treason by being hung, drawn, and quartered by order of King Edward I of England.
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