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On this day in 2011, the movement that became known as Occupy Wall Street started in New York City. Other Events on September 17th: 1862: The important Civil War Battle of Antietam took place in ...
1660 – The four-year-old Charles XI became King of Sweden upon his father's death.; 1891 – Frances Coles was killed in the last of eleven unsolved murders of women that took place in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London.
According to History.com, on this day in 2011, NASA's space shuttle program completed its final, and 135th, mission, when the shuttle Atlantis landed at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. During the ...
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Nov. 15—November 15: 1777 — The Continental Congress approved the Articles of Confederation, precursor to the U.S. Constitution. 1806 — Explorer Zebulon Pike spotted the mountaintop that ...
Disasters Over 1.5 million people are still without power and four states declare a state of emergency after a nor'easter hits the Eastern United States. (CNN) LOT Polish Airlines Flight 016 makes a successful emergency landing at Warsaw Chopin Airport. (CNN) At least seven people are killed and 200 injured following an explosion caused by two trucks carrying explosives crashing in Fuquan City ...
2011 - The first Zenit-3F rocket launches the Elektro-L No.1 meteorology satellite. 2011 - A Delta IV Heavy rocket launches the USA-224 optical reconnaissance satellite. 2012 - A Delta IV rocket launches the USA-233 military communication satellite for the Wideband Global SATCOM system .
Getty Images Memorial Day is one of those tricky holidays that falls on a different date from year to year, but unlike Easter, which jumps all over the spring, Memorial Day is always on the last ...