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Pizarro's tomb, Lima
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Battle of Cajamarca
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Atahualpa, last Inca emperor
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3D representation of an LSD molecule
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Wei Jingsheng
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Louis Riel
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"Hoxne Tigress"
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First Qantas office, 1921
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The Trans-Alaska Pipeline
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International Day for Tolerance
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Day of Declaration of Sovereignty
in Estonia (
1988
)
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1491
? Several Jews and
conversos
were executed in
Toledo
, Spain, for the alleged
ritual murder
of an infant, who was later revered as the
Holy Child of La Guardia
.
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1805
?
War of the Third Coalition
: At the
Battle of Schongrabern
, Russian forces under
Pyotr Bagration
delayed the pursuit by French troops under
Joachim Murat
.
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1855
? Explorer
David Livingstone
became the first European to see
Victoria Falls
, one of the largest waterfalls in the world, on what is now the Zambia?Zimbabwe border.
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1871
? The United States'
National Rifle Association
was first chartered in the state of
New York
by
William Conant Church
and
George Wood Wingate
.
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1907
? Two years after
the failed attempt
by the
Five Civilized Tribes
in the
Indian Territory
to achieve U.S. statehood, they joined with the
Oklahoma Territory
to become
the 46th state
to enter the union.
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1920
?
Qantas
, Australia's
national airline
,
was founded
as Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services.
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1938
? Swiss chemist
Albert Hofmann
first synthesized the
psychedelic
drug
LSD
in
Basel
, Switzerland.
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1945
? The
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
(UNESCO) was founded.
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1959
?
The Sound of Music
, a musical by
Rodgers and Hammerstein
based on
The Story of the Trapp Family Singers
, opened on
Broadway
at the
Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
.
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1974
? The
Arecibo message
, devised by
Frank Drake
and
Carl Sagan
and carrying basic information about humanity, was transmitted towards the globular star cluster
M13
.
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Unreferenced material
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1989
? Eight employees of
Universidad Centroamericana "Jose Simeon Canas"
in
San Salvador
, including six Catholic priests, were
murdered
by a
Salvadoran Army
"
death squad
".
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- 534
? The second edition of the
Code of Justinian
, a codification of
Roman law
by Byzantine emperor
Justinian?I
, was published.
- 1476
? With the help of
Stephen?III
and
Stephen Bathory
,
Vlad the Impaler
ousted
Basarab the Old
and became the ruler of
Wallachia
for the third time.
- 1532
?
Spanish conquest of Peru
: Conquistador
Francisco Pizarro
orchestrated
a surprise attack
(depiction shown)
in
Cajamarca
, capturing the
Inca emperor
,
Atahualpa
.
- 1632
? King
Gustavus Adolphus
of Sweden was killed at the
Battle of Lutzen
during the
Thirty Years' War
.
- 1776
?
American Revolutionary War
:
Fort Washington
on
Manhattan
was captured
from the
Patriots
by British and
Hessian
units.
- 1885
? After
a five-day trial
following the
North-West Rebellion
, the Canadian
Metis
leader and "Father of
Manitoba
"
Louis Riel
was hanged for high treason.
- 1944
?
World War?II
:
Operation Queen
commenced with one of the heaviest
Allied
tactical bombings of the war, attacking German targets in the
Rur
valley.
- 1967
?
Aeroflot Flight?2230
crashed after takeoff from
Koltsovo Airport
, Russia, killing all 107 people aboard.
- 1981
? About 30?million people watched the fictional couple
Luke Spencer and Laura Webber
wed on the television show
General Hospital
in the highest-rated hour in American
soap-opera
history.
- 1992
? In
Suffolk
, England, a local man found
the largest hoard
of Roman silver and gold in Britain
(sample pictured)
, including the largest collection of 4th- and 5th-century gold and silver coins ever discovered within the former
Roman Empire
.
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