The Battle of Varna takes place, with the Ottomans defeating a Christian Crusader army.
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The Treaty of Blois is signed, solidifying the alliance between France and Spain against the Republic of Venice.
The Treaty of Ryswick is signed, ending the Nine Years' War and restoring peace in Europe.
The United States Marine Corps is officially established by the Continental Congress. More
The Osage, were the largest tribe of the Southern Sioux people occupying what would later become the states of Missouri, Kansas, and Nebraska. Several treaties starting in 1808 between the Osages and the United States resulted in the Osage leaving their tribal lands and to settled in southeast Kansas on the Cherokee Strip.
Later in 1865, in a decision that would eventually make them one of the wealthiest surviving Native American nations, the Osage tribe agreed to abandon their lands again, and move from Missouri and Arkansas to a reservation in Indian Territory in Oklahoma, site of present-day Osage County. More
Henry Morton Stanley meets Dr. David Livingstone after nearly eight months of search, in Ujiji, a small village on the shore of Lake Tanganyika in present day Tanzania. Dr. Livingstone had been traveling in Central Africa without contact with the Western world for 7 years. The first words from Stanley were the now famous "Dr. Livingston I presume? More
A political coup and massacre takes place in which the multiracial Fusionist (Republican and Populist) city government of Wilmington, North Carolina, is violently overthrown by a group of the state's white Southern Democrats conspiring and leading a mob of 2,000 white men to overthrow the legitimately elected government in Wilmington.
They expelled the opposition black and white political leaders from the city, destroyed the property and businesses of black citizens built up since the American Civil War, including the only black newspaper in the city, and killed from an estimated 60 to more than 300 people. More
Mary Anderson is granted a patent for a windshield wiper. The United States Patent Office awarded Anderson patent number 743,801 for her Window Cleaning device which consisted of a lever inside the vehicle that controlled a rubber blade on the outside of the windshield. More
Sesame Street, a beloved educational children's television program, premieres in the United States.
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The 729-foot iron ore freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald, sinks in Lake Superior during a severe storm on November 10, 1975, resulting in the loss of all 29 crew members. The sinking was famously documented in Gordon Lightfoot's 1976 song; “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald".
The exact cause of the sinking is still debated, but it is known that the ship carrying a cargo of taconite pellets, The ship was struck by enormous waves, sinking in a blinding snowstorm as it sustained damage and lost its radar just before it disappeared from radar screens. The SS Edmund Fitzgerald was named after Edmund Fitzgerald, the president and later chairman of the board of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, which commissioned the ship.
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American Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus A300-600, N14053, crashes in Queens, New York, shortly after takeoff from Kennedy International Airport. All 260 people on board and five people on the ground died in the crash. More
Pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and BioNTech announce positive results from their COVID-19 vaccine trial.