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1502 - The present-day location of which South American city is first explored ?
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1841 – Which island is occupied by the British for the first time?
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1869 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton becomes the first woman to do what ?
Testify before US Congress
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Sail solo across the Atlantic
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Work at the London Stock Exchange
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1887 – The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease which naval base ?
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1921 – The British K-class submarine HMS K5 sinks in which body of water killing all 56 on board ?
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1930 – Buzz Aldrin, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut, is born in which state of the US ?
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1949 - J. Edgar Hoover gives Shirley Temple a fountain pen containing what ?
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1953 – First live US coast-to-coast inauguration address by which President ?
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1973 - A car bomb explodes in Sackville Place, in which Irish city, killing 1 person and injuring 17 ?
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1981 - The US diplomats and citizens held hostage at the US embassy in which city are released and begin their journey home after 444 days ?
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1982 - Heavy metal musician Ozzy Osbourne does what on stage in Des Moines, Iowa ?
Bites the head off a bat
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Smashes his guitar through an amp
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Collapses from exhaustion
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1984 – Johnny Weissmuller, American swimmer and actor, dies on this day, he was best known for his role as which fictional character ?
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1992 – Air Inter Flight 148, an Airbus A320-111, crashes into a mountain near which European city, killing 87 of the 96 people on board ?
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Today is "National Heroes Day" in which African island nation ?
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2014 - Credit cards of at least 20 million people in which Asian country are hacked ?
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2022 - Michael Lee Aday, American singer and actor, dies on this day. Under what name is he better known?