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1607 – The Flight of the Earls takes place in Ireland.; 1666 – In London, England, the most destructive damage from the Great Fire occurs.; 1774 – New Caledonia is first sighted by Europeans, during the second voyage of Captain James Cook.
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1301 – King Andrew III died without any male heirs, ending the Árpád dynasty, which had ruled Hungary since the late 9th century.; 1900 – Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca (poster pictured), based on the play La Tosca by French dramatist Victorien Sardou, premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome.
Google is turning 17! It seems like such a gigantic company should be much older, but it wasn't even two decades ago that the very first iteration of today's most used search engine went online.
29 years ago today, on September 8, 1986, The Oprah Winfrey Show is broadcast nationally for the first time. Her daytime talk show became an instant success, and Winfrey has since become one of ...
Joshua Bloom of the University of California, Berkeley, who was able to observe the location of the GRB at the Gemini South telescope in Chile, called the discovery of GRB 090423 a "watershed event" as it marked "the beginning of the study of the universe as it was before most of the structure that we know about today came into being."
1377 – Gregory XI, the last Avignon pope, entered Rome after a four-month journey from Avignon, returning the papacy to its original city.; 1893 – Lorrin A. Thurston and the Citizens' Committee of Public Safety led the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom and the government of Queen LiliÊ»uokalani (pictured).
Timeline of United States history (1900–1929) References External links. Media related to 1924 in the United States at Wikimedia Commons; This page was last edited ...