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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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| 1990 | Saddam anounces release of all foriegn hostages | |
| 1988 | STS-27 Atlantis lands in Calif after secret mission | |
| 1988 | Arafat meets prominent American Jews in Stockholm, Sweden | |
| 1986 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island | |
| 1983 | A bomb planted on a bus in Jerusalem explodes, kills 6 Israelis | |
| 1982 | 11 soldiers & 6 civilians die by bomb planted by Irish National Liberation Army exploded in a pub in Ballykelly, Northern Ireland | |
| 1973 | Gerald Ford sworn-in as 1st unelected VP, succeeds Spiro T Agnew | |
| 1973 | Bahrain's constitution goes into effect | |
| 1969 | USSR performs nuclear test | |
| 1967 | USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR | |
| 1962 | US abandons Skybolt balastic missile program | |
| 1956 | Nelson Mandela & 156 others arrested for political activities in S Afr | |
| 1944 | US 95th Infantry division reaches Westwall | |
| 1940 | Gestapo arrest German resistance fighter/poster artist Helen Ernst | |
| 1938 | French/German non-attack treaty drawn (Ribbentrop-Bonnet Pact) | |
| 1938 | 117 Spanish knights under capt Piet Laros return to Netherlands | |
| 1933 | Ban on James Joyce' "Ulysses" in US, lifted | |
| 1929 | Turkey introduces female suffrage | |
| 1923 | 1st presidential address broadcast on radio (Pres Calvin Coolidge) | |
| 1922 | 1st electric power line commercial carrier in US, Utica, NY | |
| 1921 | Anglo-Irish Treaty signed; Ireland receives dominion status; partition creates Northern Ireland | |
| 1917 | French munition ship "Mont Blanc" explodes in Halifax, kills 1,700 | |
| 1917 | Finland declares independence from Russia (National Day) | |
| 1916 | German army under Gen Mackensen occupies Bucharest | |
| 1907 | Coal mine explosions in Monongah, WV, kills 361 | |
| 1904 | Theodore Roosevelt confirms Monroe-doctrine (Roosevelt Corollary) | |
| 1884 | Aluminum capstone set atop Washington Monument, Wash, DC | |
| 1877 | Washington Post publishes 1st edition | |
| 1877 | 1st sound recording made (Thomas Edison) | |
| 1875 | 44th Congress (1875-77) convenes | |
| 1870 | Joseph H Rainey, 1st black in House of Reps (SC) | |
| 1866 | Chicago water supply tunnel 3,227 m into Lake Michigan completed | |
| 1865 | 13th Amendment is ratified, abolishing slavery | |
| 1864 | Battle of Deveaux's Neck, SC | |
| 1849 | Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery in Maryland | |
| 1825 | Pres John Adams suggests establishment of a US observatory | |
| 1820 | US president James Monroe re-elected | |
| 1790 | Congress meets in Philadelphia, new temporary US capital | |
| 1768 | 1st edition of "Encyclopedia Brittanica" published (Scotland) | |
| 1732 | 1st play in American colonies acted by professional players, NYC | |
| 1492 | Haiti discovered by Columbus, at Mle Saint Nicolas | |
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