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What Happened This Day In History. A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on this day in history.
Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts, entertainment and more. Discover what happened today in history.
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| 1991 | US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site | |
| 1989 | US 62nd manned space mission STS 34 (Atlantis 5) launches into orbit | |
| 1979 | Iranian Ayatollah Khomeini orders mass executions to stop | |
| 1979 | USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR | |
| 1977 | W German commandos liberate Boeing 737, 86 hostages at Mogadishu | |
| 1975 | USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR | |
| 1967 | Soviet Venera 4 becomes 1st probe to send data back from Venus | |
| 1962 | JFK meets Russian minister of Foreign affairs Andrei Gromyko | |
| 1962 | US launches Ranger 5 for lunar impact; misses Moon | |
| 1962 | US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island | |
| 1961 | Emergency crisis proclaimed in South Vietnam due to commun attack | |
| 1951 | USSR performs nuclear test | |
| 1945 | Nazi war crime trial opens in Nuremberg | |
| 1944 | Eisenhower, Bradley & Montgomery confer in Brussel | |
| 1944 | Soviet troops invade Czechoslovakia during WW II | |
| 1943 | US bombing of Bougainville, Solomon Island | |
| 1942 | Hitler orders allied commandos to be killed | |
| 1926 | Frankfurter Zeitung publishes Lenins political testament | |
| 1913 | Austrian-Hungary demands that Serbia & Albania leave | |
| 1890 | John Owen is 1st man to run | |
| 1878 | Edison makes electricity available for household usage | |
| 1867 | US takes formal possession of Alaska from Russia ($7.2 million) | |
| 1863 | Battle of Charlestown, WV | |
| 1862 | Morgan's raiders capture federal garrison at Lexington, KY | |
| 1776 | In a NY bar decorated with bird tail, customer orders "cock tail" | |
| 1776 | Battle of Pelham: Col John Glover & Marblehead regiment meet British Forces in Bronx | |
| 1767 | Boundary between MD & PA, Mason Dixon line, agreed upon | |
| 1648 | 1st US labor organization forms (Boston Shoemakers) | |
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