2021
Nobel Prize for Economics awarded to David Card, Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens for their work on “natural experiments”.
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2018
The Russian Soyuz MS-10 manned spacecraft malfunctioned during takeoff and made an emergency landing in Kazakhstan.
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2018
The world’s longest flight took place between Singapore and Newark Airport.
The journey covered 9,300 miles in just under 19 hours.
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2016
Samsung stopped producing Note 7 phones due to batteries exploding on users.
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2000
NASA launched STS-92 to the International Space Station, which became the 100th Space Shuttle mission.
It was launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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1987
Around 200,000 people marched through Washington, D.C. streets to fight for gay and lesbian civil rights.
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1984
NASA astronaut Kathy Sullivan became the first woman to walk in space.
She successfully spacewalked for 3.5 hours, proving that satellites could be refueled while in orbit. Source

1983
Lionel Richie’s second album and best-selling of all time, “Can’t Slow Down,” was released.
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1975
The American sketch comedy series “Saturday Night Live” premiered on US television.
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1958
NASA launched its first space probe, Pioneer 1.
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1939
US President Franklin D. Roosevelt received a letter from Albert Einstein detailing the possibility of atomic weapons.
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1887
Alexander Miles patented the automatic opening and closing elevator.
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1852
Australia’s first university, The University of Sydney, was inaugurated.
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1138
The Aleppo, Syria earthquake occurred and was one of the deadliest in history, killing around 230,000 Syrians.
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