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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.
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Here's what's happened Today in History.
1942 – Bing Crosby, the Ken Darby Singers and the John Scott Trotter Orchestra record Merry Christmas, the best–selling Christmas album in history, for Decca Records in Los Angeles. 1973 – Tom Bradley is elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles, California.
On July 19, 1910, the governor of the U.S. state of Washington proclaimed the nation's first "Father's Day." However, it was not until 1972, 58 years after President Woodrow Wilson made Mother's ...
The 1958 and 2003 Presidents' Day storms were two of just 11 Northeast winter storms since 1950 to be classified as Category 4 on the Northeast Snowfall Impact Scale , a 1-5 scale ranking of how ...
1966 - A Thor-Burner launches a DMSP satellite; 1973 - A Proton-K/D launches Luna 21.; 1986 - A Soyuz-U rocket launches a Zenit-8 spy satellite.; 1990 - An EVA is performed by the crew of Mir to install star tracking equipment.
August 26: Heroes' Day in Namibia; Women's Equality Day in the United States Clashes between police and protesters at the 1968 Democratic National Convention 683 – Second Fitna : The Battle of al-Harra was fought between Umayyad forces and the rebel defenders of Medina at a lava field northeast of the city.