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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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| 1989 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island | |
| 1988 | PLO proclaims State of Palestine, recognizes Israeli existence | |
| 1987 | USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR | |
| 1979 | Brit govt identifies Sir Anthony Blunt as 4th man in Soviet spy ring | |
| 1977 | Pres Jimmy Carter welcomes Shah of Iran | |
| 1961 | UN bans nuclear arms | |
| 1960 | USS G Washington, 1st sub with nuclear ballistic missiles, launched | |
| 1957 | US sentences Soviet spy Rudolf Ivanovich Abel to 30 years & $3,000 | |
| 1946 | Joseph McCarthy's HUAC interrogates astronomer Harlow Shapley | |
| 1940 | 1st 75,000 men called to armed forces duty during peacetime | |
| 1940 | NY Midtown tunnel linking Manhattan and Queens opens to traffic | |
| 1939 | Anti-German demonstrations in Czechoslovakia | |
| 1939 | FDR lays cornerstone of Jefferson Memorial in Wash DC | |
| 1939 | Nazis begin mass murder of Warsaw Jews | |
| 1939 | Social Security Administration approves 1st unemployment check | |
| 1920 | League of Nations holds 1st meeting, in Geneva | |
| 1919 | Senate 1st invokes cloture to end a filibuster (Versailles Treaty) | |
| 1914 | Italian socialist Benito Mussolini founds newspaper Il populo ditalia | |
| 1899 | Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill & wife captured in Natal | |
| 1881 | American Federation of Labor (AFL) founded (Pittsburgh) | |
| 1864 | 1st US mines school opens in basement of Columbia University, NY | |
| 1864 | Union Major General Sherman burns Atlanta | |
| 1777 | Articles of Confederation adopted by Continental Congress | |
| 1763 | Charles Mason & Jeremiah Dixon begin surveying Mason-Dixon Line between Pennsylvania & Maryland | |
| 1492 | Christopher Columbus notes 1st recorded reference to tobacco | |
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