2021
The UK hit a milestone after giving 10 million people a COVID-19 vaccination.
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2011
5 Seconds of Summer member Luke Hemmings posted his first YouTube video.
The video was a cover of Mike Posner’s song, “Please Don’t Go.”
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1994
A Russian cosmonaut flew aboard a NASA Space Shuttle for the first time.
Sergei K. Krikalev made history when he flew aboard NASA’s Discovery Space Shuttle for the first mission of the joint Shuttle-Mir Program, STS-60. While later Shuttle-Mir missions did go to the Mir space station, this mission performed several experiments. A major highlight was a live audio and video hookup between the shuttle and Mir. Good Morning America televised the event, in which astronauts from the shuttle and the station communicated with each other.
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1986
Mother Teresa and The Pope met in Calcutta, where they both fed the sick.
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1972
A week-long blizzard struck Iran and killed 4,000 people, making it the deadliest in history.
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1966
The first weather satellite (ESSA-1) was launched into orbit from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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1959
Rock and roll musician Buddy Holly died during a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa.
Musicians Ritchie Valens and “The Big Bopper” J. P. Richardson were also onboard and lost their lives. As a result, this day became known as “The Day the Music Died.”
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1947
The temperature plunged to -81.4°F in Snag, Yukon, Canada, making it the coldest recorded temperature in North America.
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1945
Walt Disney released “3 Caballeros” in the United States.
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1931
New Zealand suffered its most fatal natural disaster in history during the Hawke’s Bay Earthquake.
The 7.8 magnitude earthquake killed 256 people and injured thousands more.
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1882
P.T. Barnum purchased the world-famous circus elephant Jumbo.
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1815
Switzerland opened the world’s first commercial cheese factory.
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1690
The first paper money was issued in America in the Colony of Massachusetts.
The trend quickly caught on, and eventually, other colonies issued paper money as well.
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