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Wednesday, September 8th, 2010
Official 40th Anniversary Star Trek logo. Copyright 2007 Paramount Pictures and CBS Studios Inc.
- 1565 – First permanent European settlement in N. America – present-day St. Augustine, FL β was established by the Spanish
- 1941 – A 900-day siege of Leningrad by German forces began (WWII)
- 1966 – The TV series “Star Trek” premiered on NBC
- 1974 β U.S. President Ford pardoned former President Nixon
- 1986 β Nissan opened its first European factory
- 2010 β BP released its investigative report on the Deepwater Horizon disaster
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Tuesday, September 7th, 2010
Elizabeth I , "Darnley Portrait", c. 1575
- 1533 – England’s Queen Elizabeth I was born in Greenwich
- 1776 β Worldβs first submarine attack took place in New York Harbor
- 1822 – Brazil declared its independence from Portugal
- 1986 – Bishop Desmond Tutu becomes the archbishop of Cape Town, S. Africa
- 1996 β Rapper Tupac Shakur was shot
- 2008 – Troubled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were placed in government conservatorship
- 2010 β France held general strike over retirement reforms
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Friday, September 3rd, 2010
King Richard I of England
- 1189 – England’s King Richard I (the Lion-Hearted) was crowned in Westminster
- 1783 – The Treaty of Paris officially ended America’s Revolutionary War
- 1939 β Britain and France declared war on Germany
- 1943 β Allies invaded Italian mainland
- 1978 – Pope Benedict XV named to papacy
- 1990 β Bush prepared for his first summit with Gorbachev
- 2010 β A suicide bomber claimed 44 victims in two Pakistan blasts
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Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
Detail of painting from 1666 of the Great Fire of London by an unknown painte
- 32 B.C. – Battle of Actium β Roman leader Octavian wins against the forces of Roman Mark Antony and Cleopatra
- 1666 – The Great Fire of London broke out
- 1789 β The U.S. Treasury Department was established by Congress
- 1935 – A hurricane slammed into the Florida Keys, claiming 423 lives
- 1945 β Japan surrendered (WWII)
- 1969 β First ATM opened for business
- 2010 β Mideast peace talks begin in Washington
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Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
Hurricane Earl
- 1775 β King George refused Olive Branch Petition
- 1905 – Alberta and Saskatchewan became the eighth and ninth provinces of Canada
- 1939 β Germany invaded Poland
- 1969 β Quaddafi leads coup in Libya
- 1983 β Korean Airlines flight shot down by the Soviet Union
- 2004 β Chechen separatists storm Russian school
- 2010 β U.S. officials order mandatory evacuations as Earl approaches
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Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
Princess Diana on a royal visit for the official opening of the community centre on Whitehall Road, Bristol in May 1987
- 1888 – Mary Ann Nichols, regarded as the first victim of Jack the Ripper, found dead
- 1897 β Edison patented the Kinetograph
- 1935 β FDR signs the Neutrality Act
- 1939 β Germany prepares for the invasion of Poland
- 1955 β William Cobb demonstrated the first solar-powered car
- 1997 β Princes Diana died in a car crash
- 2006 – Iran defied a U.N. deadline to stop enriching uranium
- 2010 β Iraqi Prime Minister Al-Maliki marks the end to Iraq combat mission by U.S.
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Monday, August 30th, 2010
Mt. Sinabung erupting in Jakarta, Indonesia
- 30 B.C. – Cleopatra, queen of Egypt, took her life following the defeat of her forces against Octavian
- 1797 – “Frankenstein” author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was born in London
- 1862 β Battle of Richmond, KY
- 1918 β Vladimir I. Lenin was shot
- 1966 β China agrees to provide aid to North Vietnam
- 1983 – Guion S. Bluford Jr. became the first African-American astronaut to travel in space
- 2010 – Mount Sinabung in Jakarta, Indonesia erupted, killing 2 and displacing more than 30,000
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Friday, August 27th, 2010
A map of Krakatoa after the 1883 eruption, showing the change in geography
- 1770 – German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was born in Stuttgart
- 1883 β The most powerful volcanic eruption in recorded history occurs on Krakatau in Indonesia
- 1916 β Romania enters WWI
- 1945 – American troops began landing in Japan following the surrender of the Japanese government in WWII
- 2008 – Sen. Barack Obama of IL was nominated for president by the DNC in Denver
- 2010 – Former President Jimmy Carter won the release of a U.S. citizen imprisoned in North Korea
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Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
Vesuvius from Portici by Joseph Wright of Derby
- 79 – Mount Vesuvius erupted, burying the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in volcanic ash
- 1572 – The slaughter of French Protestants at the hands of Catholics began in Paris
- 1814 – British forces invaded Washington, D.C., setting fire to the Capitol and the White House
- 1932 – Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly nonstop across the U.S.
- 2006 – Astronomers declared that Pluto was no longer a planet, demoting it to a “dwarf planet”
- 2010 β Danielle becomes a Category 2 hurricane in the Atlantic
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Monday, August 23rd, 2010
- 1754 – France’s King Louis XVI was born at Versailles
- 1775 – Britain’s King George III proclaimed the American colonies in a state of open rebellion
- 1926 – Silent film star Rudolph Valentino died at age 31
- 1939 – Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression treaty
- 1970 β Lou Reed plays his last show with the Velvet Underground
- 1999 – NYC reported first cases of West Nile Virus
- 2010 β Police ended the hostage crisis on a tour bus in Manila, Philippines
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