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On This Day; BBC: On This Day; The New York Times: On This Day; Library of Congress: Today in History; History Channel (US): This Day in History; History Channel (UK): This Day in History; New Zealand Government: Today in New Zealand History Archived 2017-04-14 at the Wayback Machine; Computer History Museum: This Day in History
Events. 1796 – The U.S. takes possession of Detroit from Great Britain under terms of the Jay Treaty.; 1798 – The United States Marine Corps is re–established; they had been disbanded after the American Revolutionary War.
1934 – Dust Bowl: A strong two–day dust storm removes massive amounts of Great Plains topsoil in one of the worst dust storms of the Dust Bowl in North America. 1942 – William Faulkner's collections of short stories, Go Down, Moses, is published. 1953 – The 1953 Waco tornado outbreak: An F5 tornado hits downtown Waco, Texas, killing 114.
Events. 1865 - Abraham Lincoln makes his last public speech.; 1899 - Spain cedes Puerto Rico to the United States.; 1921 - First sports broadcast on the radio.; 1921 - Iowa becomes the first U.S. state to impose a cigarette tax.
1752 - The British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar, skipping eleven days (the previous day was September 2) 1769 - Birth of Alexander von Humboldt, German naturalist and explorer (d. 1859; 1837 - Birth of Nikolai Bugaev, Russian mathematician (d. 1903)
1654 – Arauco War: A Spanish army is defeated by local Mapuche-Huilliches as it tries to cross Bueno River in Southern Chile. [7]1759 – The first American life insurance company, the Corporation for Relief of Poor and Distressed Presbyterian Ministers and of the Poor and Distressed Widows and Children of the Presbyterian Ministers (now part of Unum Group), is incorporated in Philadelphia ...
Gospel Day ; Imamat Day ; National Day of Commemoration, held on the nearest Sunday to this date (Ireland) The first day of Naadam (July 11–15) World Population Day (International) [49] International Day of Reflection and Commemoration of the 1995 Genocide in Srebrenica, established by the U.N. in May 2024. [50] [51]
Remembrance Day (United Kingdom and the Commonwealth of Nations, including Australia and Canada) Veterans Day, called Armistice Day until 1954, when it was rededicated to honor American military (Army, Navy, Marine, and Air Force) veterans. (United States) Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Angola from Portugal in 1975.