2016
The preview of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Cursed Child was shown at the Palace Theater in London.
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2000
Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ordered the breakup of Microsoft Corporation.
The breakup occurred due to the fact that Microsoft continued to break antitrust laws with browser markets and the PC Operating system.
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1983
The USSR’s Venera 16 probe was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on a trip to Venus.
The uncrewed spacecraft was the twin of the Venera 15, which left shortly before the Venera 16. It reached Venus’ orbit by October 11 that year, and together with the Venera 15, it photographed the upper half of Venus’ northern hemisphere. The final response from Venera 16 was on June 13, 1985.
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1946
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) resumed TV broadcasting for the first time since the end of WWII.
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1939
Queen Elizabeth I and George VI became the first king and queen of Great Britain to travel to the US.
On this day, their Royal tour continued from Quebec, Canada, into the US.
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1929
Vatican City signed the Lateran Treaty making it an independent state.
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1912
Machine guns were fired from a US airplane for the first time.
On this day, Captain Charles Chandler flew at an altitude of 250 feet while successfully shooting a cheesecloth target.
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1862
The US and Britain signed the Lyons-Seward Treaty.
The Treaty was an agreement to suppress the trading of slaves.
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1839
King Kamehameha III of Hawaii signed the Declaration of Rights, which was a significant movement away from the country’s “ancient ways.”
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1788
The Day of the Tiles took place.
Civilians in Grenoble tossed roof tiles and other objects onto royal troops. Historians credit this event as the beginning of the French Revolution.
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1753
The British Museum in London was established after King George II gave his Royal assent to parliament.
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1665
During the Great Plague of London, infected persons’ homes were marked with crosses.
Those who had the virus had to isolate their homes for 40 days.
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1654
King Louis XIV of France was coronated.
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1099
The First Crusaders successfully sieged Jerusalem and took it from the Fatimid Caliphate.
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