2014
Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 disappeared with 239 people on board.
The flight was from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, and the last contact they had with air traffic control was around 38 minutes after takeoff. The plane was never found.
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2012
The hashtag #5secondsofsummer trended worldwide for the first time on Twitter.
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1994
The United States military banned smoking in the workplace.
The military has enforced aggressive anti-smoking campaigns; smoking is still more prevalent in the forces than among civilians.
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1990
The Zodiac Killer shot his first victim Mario Orosco.
The Zodiac Killer was called Heriberto Seda and a serial killer in New York city who killed three people while wounding five. Seda was sentenced to 232 years in prison!
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1986
The world’s richest tennis player, Martina Navratilova, became the first to make $10 million.
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1980
The first official rock festival took place in the Soviet Union.
The event was held in Tbilisi, Georgia, and became a turning point of Soviet and Russian rock music.
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1979
Many volcanoes were discovered on one of planet Jupiter’s moons called Io.
It was previously believed to be much like the surface of Earth’s moon until Voyager I came up close and spotted cloud plumes from volcanoes.
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1979
Philips demonstrated the compact disc publicly for the first time.
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1975
The first International Women’s Day was celebrated.
The day is celebrated to encourage equality between men and women.
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1898
The tone poem Don Quixote by Richard Strauss premiered in Cologne, Germany.
A tone poem is a single continuous piece of orchestral music.
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1817
The New York Stock Exchange was founded.
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1702
Queen Anne became Queen of England after King William III died.
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