2015
Google adopted a new logo design.
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2000
Neversoft’s Spider-Man was released for the PlayStation.
This was both the first PlayStation Spider-Man game and the first Spider-Man game to be published by Activision, who had just acquired the license. It used the game engine from Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, in which Spider-Man is a hidden playable character.
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1995
A bill in New York to reinstate the death penalty became law.
Ten offenses could lead you to the death penalty in the state, but under 18s and pregnant persons are excluded.
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1992
Super Mario Kart was released in North America on the SNES console.
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1982
The United States of America founded Space Command (SPACECOM), the first of its kind in the US Armed Forces.
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1978
The zombie horror movie “Dawn of the Dead” premiered in Turin, Italy.
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1962
Earth’s population passed 3 billion.
It was only 33 years before this that the population reached 2 billion.
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1941
Jews in Germany over six years old were forced to wear the yellow star of David.
Those who didn’t display their badge were subjected to fines, prison, or even being shot.
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1939
Germany invaded Poland in the free city of Danzig, which started World War II.
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1923
The Great Kantō earthquake struck Japan.
The 7.9 magnitude earthquake happened alongside raging firestorms and a swirling fire tornado. As a result, 142,800 people lost their lives.
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1894
Over 400 people died in the Great Hinckley Fire, a forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota.
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1804
German Astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding discovered the 3 Juno asteroid in the Asteroid Belt.
The third asteroid to ever be discovered, Juno, was initially thought to be a planet and only reclassified in 1850. It was named after Juno, the highest of the Roman Goddesses. It’s one of the twenty largest asteroids in the Asteroid Belt.
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1798
Blacksmith, Patrick Lyon stole $162,821 in cash and gold from a vault at the Bank of Pennsylvania.
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1785
Mozart published the Haydn Quartets in Vienna.
The “Haydn” Quartets are a set of six string quartets as his opus 10. They were dedicated to composer Joseph Haydn.
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1752
The famous Liberty Bell arrived in Philadelphia, US.
The Liberty Bell became a national symbol of both freedom and justice.
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