2019
Annular solar eclipse visible from South and South East Asia.
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2018
American Colin O’Brady is the first person to cross Antarctica solo and unassisted after 54 days at the Ross Ice Shelf.
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2004
A devastating tsunami and earthquake occurred in the Indian Ocean.
The earthquake was a 9.3 magnitude which caused a tsunami that hit Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, the Maldives. The destruction killed 230,000 people.
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1996
JonBenét Ramsey was found dead.
This six-year-old beauty queen was found beaten and strangled in the basement of her family’s home in Boulder, Colorado. The crime remains to be unsolved, and the case remained open.
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1996
The largest strike in South Korean history began.
It consisted of auto and shipbuilding employees protesting against an unfair labor law.
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1991
Jack Ruby’s gun, which was used to kill Lee Harvey Oswald, sold for $220,000 in an auction.
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1986
Mark Messier was suspended for ten games for starting a fight with Jamie Macoun and breaking his cheekbone.
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1982
After taking the world of technology by storm, the PC was named TIME’s Man of the Year.
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1980
A security patrol near RAF Woodbridge in Suffolk, UK, saw what they believed to be a UFO.
This was the first in a series of unexplained lights witnessed in the area. The patrol saw the lights descend into a nearby forest, and when they went to investigate, they found a glowing metallic object covered in lights. It moved further away from them whenever they tried to approach it. The incident has since been referred to as “Britain’s Roswell.”
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1973
The horror film “The Exorcist,” based on book and screenplay by William Peter Blatty, premiered.
It was the first horror film to be nominated for Best Picture.
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1966
Jimi Hendrix wrote “Purple Haze” backstage at the Upper Cut Club, London.
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1941
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a bill establishing the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day in the US.
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1924
Judy Garland made her show business debut.
At just 2 ½ years old, Judy Garland made her debut singing “Jingle Bells” with her elder sisters on the stage of her father’s movie theater.
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1908
Jack Johnson became the first African American to win the world heavyweight boxing title.
It was challenging for Johnson to even fight the suitable matches in a racially divided world to reach this level. After goading Tommy Burns, the champion at the time, for two years, a match was finally set up in Sydney, Australia. After fourteen rounds, Johnson came away victorious.
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1898
Marie and Pierre Curie announced their discovery of radium.
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1865
James H Mason patented the first US coffee percolator.
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