2021
One of world’s largest floor mosaics unveiled after restoration at Hisham’s Palace (660-750 AD) by Palestinian authorities in Jericho, West Bank.
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2021
Mark Zuckerberg announces Facebook will change its corporate name to Meta amid increased public scrutiny over leaked internal documents.
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2019
Forty-two people were buried alive in a landslide in Bafoussam, Cameroon.
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2015
The World Health Organization ranked Tuberculosis as deadly as HIV in its list of the world’s most deadly diseases.
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1992
Lee Jang Rim, the founder of the Dami Mission Christian Movement in South Korea, declared that the world would end.
The world didn’t end, and he was later convicted for stealing millions from his followers.
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1986
The Statue of Liberty celebrated its 100th birthday.
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1971
Prospero became the first British satellite to have been launched successfully by a British rocket.
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1962
The Cuban Missile Crisis Ended.
After thirteen of the tensest days of the Cold War, the Soviet Union announced it would dismantle the ballistic missiles it had placed in Cuba. In return, the United States agreed not to invade Cuba again.
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1954
Writer Ernest Miller Hemingway won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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1904
Fingerprinting was first officially used in the US in a St. Louis police department.
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1858
Macy’s Department Store first opened.
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1811
Prince Regent George Augustus Frederick purchased the first copy of Jane Austen’s novel “Sense and Sensibility.”
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1726
English literature classic Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift was published.
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1538
The Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino was founded in the Dominican Republic.
It was the first higher education institution formed in the New World; however, it wasn’t officially recognized until 1558. The University still functions and is called the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo.
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1492
Explorer Christopher Columbus discovered Cuba.
He claimed it for Spain and called it Juana.
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306 AD
Maxentius became a Roman emperor, until his death exactly six years later.
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