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- 1891
1st public bathhouse with showers opens in NYC (People's Bath) View Post →
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- 1859
A hot air balloon was used to carry mail for the first time. John Wise left Lafayette, IN, for New York City with 100 letters. He had to land after only 27 miles
- 1969
Hurricane Camille strikes US coastline and kills 259 people (mainly in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana)
- 1976
An earthquake & tsunami in the Philippines kills up to 8,000
- 1979
2 Russian passenger planes collide above Ukraine, 173 killed
- 1999
A 7.4-magnitude earthquake strikes İzmit, Turkey, killing more than 17,000 and injuring 44,000
- 2017
Collision of two neutron stars witnessed for the first time first picked up by US-based Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (Ligo)
- 1790
The capital city of the U.S. moved to Philadelphia from New York City
