Today in History |
2020 ‐
Goldman Sachs agrees to pay record $3 billion to end probe into its role in 1MDB corruption scandal to regulators in the US, UK, Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia
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2009 ‐
Microsoft releases Windows 7
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2008 ‐
Google Play is launched, the official app store for the Android operating system
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1981 ‐
US national debt tops $1 trillion
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1962 ‐
Cuban Missile Crisis: US President John F. Kennedy addresses TV about Russian missile bases in Cuba and imposes a naval blockade on Cuba, beginning the missile crisis
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1938 ‐
Chester Carlson has 1st successful experiment in electrophotography, later sold to the Haloid Company and dubbed "Xerox copying"
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1897 ‐
World's first car dealer opens in London
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1881 ‐
Boston Symphony Orchestra gives its first concert
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1861 ‐
1st telegraph line linking West & East coasts completed
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1836 ‐
Sam Houston inaugurated as 1st elected President of the Republic of Texas
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1827 ‐
German chemist Friedrich Wöhler is the first to isolate pure aluminium
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1797 ‐
Andre-Jacques Garnerin makes 1st parachute descent from a balloon in Paris
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