2021
Blue Origin’s New Shepherd rocket successfully launched on its 14th flight from Launch Site One, Texas.
It flew as mission NS-14 to test out a new and improved crew capsule, the same capsule used later in 2021 to fly Founder Jeff Bezos to space. This mission, however, had a very different passenger – one crash test dummy dubbed “Mannequin Skywalker.”
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2004
The country of Georgia officially adopted the Five Cross Flag after more than five hundred years since its last use.
The last time the Five Cross Flag, Georgia’s current national flag, was used was during the time of the Kingdom of Georgia. The flag, which is made up of four small crosses and one large red cross, closely resembles the flag of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
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2001
Jennifer Lopez scored her first UK No.1 single with “Love Don’t Cost A Thing.”
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1979
US President Jimmy Carter expressed his support for Martin Luther King’s birthday to become a national holiday.
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1972
Queen Margrethe II became the first Queen of Denmark since 1412.
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1969
An accidental explosion aboard the USS Enterprise near Hawaii killed 28 people.
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1966
David Jones changed his name to David Bowie and released his first single, “Can’t Help Thinking About Me.”
Bowie changed his name because there was another star at the time called Davy Jones.
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1952
The Today Show aired for the first time on NBC-TV with Dave Garroway and Jack Lescoulie as hosts.
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1943
US President Franklin D. Roosevelt arrived in Morocco, where he met British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to discuss allies during World War II.
This was the first time any American president had been on an airplane.
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1878
Segregation of races on public transport became illegal as ruled by US Supreme Court.
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1873
Inventor John Hyatt registered cellulose nitrate (celluloid) as a trademark.
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1794
Elizabeth Bennet became the first woman to give birth by a Cesarean section in the United States.
Dr. Jesse Bennett successfully performed a Cesarean section on his wife Elizabeth when she begged for him to do the surgery after she experienced a prolonged labor.
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1690
The clarinet was invented in Nuremberg, Germany, by Johann Christoph Denner.
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