2021
Men’s roller derby team settles dispute with MLB baseball team, allowing both to use Cleveland Guardians name.
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2021
Guanyu Zhou confirmed as China’s first F1 driver, racing for Alfa Romeo in 2022.
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2019
The city of Havana, Cuba, celebrated its 500th birthday.
The celebration included a massive restoration and infrastructure initiative that restored public monuments and many of the city’s shops & businesses.
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2017
Nineteen countries vowed to gradually phase out coal at the United Nations Summit in Bonn, Germany.
Pollution from coal kills an estimated 800,000 people every year.
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2015
The fourth largest diamond was found in Karowe Mine, Botswana.
The diamond was named Lesedi La Rona and is 1.11 carats.
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2012
Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 earned a staggering $500 million within 24 hours of release.
It was the largest entertainment opening release for that year.
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2009
The Twilight Saga: New Moon premiered in Los Angeles.
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2004
American singer Mario released his hit single “Let Me Love You.”
The song became Billboard’s Song of the Year for 2005.
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1999
Rapper Dr. Dre released his second album, “The Chronic 2001.”
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1995
Queen Elizabeth II had hip surgery at King Edward VII Hospital.
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1973
The Skylab 4 mission was launched by NASA, taking a crew of three astronauts to the US space station.
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1965
The Soviet Union’s Venera 3 space probe was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
The probe, which was sterilized before launch, was on a mission to land on the surface of Venus. It missed Venus on its first attempt, and after its course was corrected, contact with the probe was lost. On March 1, 1966, Venera crash-landed onto Venus’ surface, making it the first spacecraft to reach another planet’s surface.
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1920
The Model M Postage Meter was put into commercial use.
American inventor Arthur Pitney and industrialist Walter Bowes teamed together to form Pitney-Bowes Postage Meter Company in April 1920. Together they designed the US’s first postage meter.
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1907
Oklahoma became the 46th state to join the United States of America.
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1801
The first edition of America’s oldest newspaper, The New York Evening Post, was published.
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1532
Spanish conquistadors captured Atahualpa, the last Inca emperor.
Atahualpa had only just become the Inca emperor earlier that year after defeating the former emperor, his brother, in battle. His capture marked the downfall of the Inca Empire, as the Spanish invaders used him to control the Inca populace.
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1519
Due to mosquito infestations, the city of Havana was relocated to its final location.
This was not the first time the city’s location was moved, as it had been relocated twice before, within the first four years of establishing Havana.
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