2017
Jacob Sartorius released his debut album, “The Last Text EP.”
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2009
The USA’s first African-American President, Barack Obama, conducted his first address.
“Today I say to you that the challenges we face are real. They are serious and they are many. They will not be met easily or in a short span of time. But know this America.”
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2008
The first episode of Breaking Bad premiered on AMC.
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1996
NASA mission STS-72 landed at the Kennedy Space Center after eight days in space.
Mission STS-72, which was flown by the Endeavour Space Shuttle, was filmed by a PBS camera crew, with the footage going into a documentary called Astronauts. In addition, the game of Go was played for the first time in space between US astronaut Daniel T. Barry and Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata.
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1992
Air Inter Flight 148 crashed in the Vosges Mountains in France while circling to land at Strasbourg Airport.
The crash site was found more than four hours later by journalists. By the time the emergency response teams arrived, 87 people had died, with just nine survivors. Later, it was discovered that the crash was caused by a pilot’s error rather than a mechanical failure.
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1982
Ozzy Osbourne bit the head off a bat that a fan threw onto the stage during a performance in Des Moines, Iowa.
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1981
US hostages were released in Iran after 444 days.
52 American diplomats and citizens were held hostage at the American embassy in Tehran due to a diplomatic standoff between the two countries.
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1980
In a letter and on television, President Jimmy Carter announced that the Olympics should not take place in Moscow, Russia.
The suggestion was to encourage the Soviet Union to withdraw troops from Afghanistan.
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1971
Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On” single was released.
The song was inspired by police brutality witnessed in the 1970s.
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1965
The classic song “Mr. Tambourine Man” was recorded by The Byrds.
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1929
“In Old Arizona” became the first full-length talking motion picture filmed outdoors.
The movie was directed by Irving Cummings and Raoul Walsh and went on to win five Academy Awards.
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1869
Feminist Elizabeth Cady Stanton became the 1st woman to testify before Congress.
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1809
The US published its first book on Geology – “Observations on the Geology of the United States” by William Maclure.
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