2022
US President Joe Biden announced that Americans no longer needed to wear masks against Covid-19, following guidance released by the CDC.
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2008
Dmitry Medvedev was elected as the third President of Russia.
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1998
Jupiter’s moon was found to have a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice.
The Galileo probe made the discovery.
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1989
Madonna featured in a Pepsi Commercial during NBC-TV’s “Cosby Show.”
The “Make A Wish” commercial gave fans a club version sample of her pending hit single “Like A Prayer.”
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1972
The US spacecraft Pioneer 10 launched.
The Pioneer 10 was the first spacecraft to obtain close-up images of Jupiter as well as pass through an asteroid belt.
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1969
The Concorde airplane was tested for the first time in Toulouse, France.
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1965
The musical “The Sound of Music,” starring Julie Andrews, premiered.
The movie is one of the greatest musicals of all time and won many awards, including the Academy Awards Best Picture of 1966.
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1949
Automatic street lights first appeared in New Milford, Connecticut, US.
This marked the end for manual street lights.
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1933
The original “King Kong” movie was shown at Radio City Music Hall and RKO Roxy, New York City, US.
Rotten Tomatoes ranks the movie as the fourth greatest horror of all time.
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1933
An 8.4 magnitude Sanriku Earthquake and tsunami rocked Japan.
A shocking 1,522 people died, 1,542 went missing, and 12,053 people were injured in the disaster.
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1910
Two trains crashed in a snowstorm in Wellington, Washington, USA, claiming the lives of 96 people.
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1836
The Republic of Texas declared independence from Mexico during the Texas Revolution.
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1797
The Bank of England printed the first one-pound and two-pound banknotes.
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