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- 1910
Yellow Cab is founded View Post →
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- 1227
Mongolian Emperor Genghis Khan dies
- 2019
A rare two-headed timber rattlesnake, named Double Dave, is found in Pine Barrens forest, New Jersey
- 2019
NASA investigates the first potential crime in space over astronaut Anne McClain illegally accessing a bank account from space
- 2022
California votes to ban the sale of all new gasoline-powered cars by 2035
- 1537
The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, is formed
- 1609
Galileo demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers
- 1689
Montreal is captured by the Iroquois
- 1916
The National Park Service is established as part of the U.S. Department of the Interior
- 1952
Puerto Rico becomes a U.S. commonwealth
- 1977
Canadian NHL player Tim Horton is posthumously inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame
- 1981
Jeff Schwartz sets a solo record for trampoline bouncing at 266 hours and 9 minutes
- 1989
Voyager 2 flies over the cloudtops of Neptune and its moon Triton, sending back photographs of swamps
- 1991
Michael Schumacher makes his Formula One debut
- 1992
Researchers report that cigarette smoking significantly increases the risk of developing cataracts
- 1998
A survey reveals that one-third of Americans use the Internet
- 2012
Voyager 1 spacecraft becomes the first spacecraft to enter interstellar space
- 2012
Neil Armstrong, American pilot, engineer, astronaut, and the first person to walk on the moon, dies
