What happened on this day, back in the day.
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Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do you will be certain to find something you have never seen before. Alexander Graham Bell
If you add up each number from 1 to 100 consecutively (1 + 2 + 3...), it totals 5050.
1519 Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés arrives in Mexico to loot the Aztec civilisation.
1804 At the Battle of Vinegar Hill, in New South Wales, Australia, Irish convicts lead the colony’s only significant convict uprising.
1930 Floods devastate Languedoc and surrounds in south-west France, causing the deaths of more than 700 people.
1949 Known as “Old Stone Arse” for the amount of time he spent behind his desk, renowned Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov is succeeded by Andrei Vishinsky.
1962 The US announces the first atomic power plant in Antarctica. It lasts just 10 years.
1966 In an interview, John Lennon says, “We (The Beatles) are more popular than Jesus.”
1969 Ruthless London East End gang bosses, twins Ronnie and Reggie Kray are found guilty of murder. Both die in captivity.
1970 The French submarine Eurydice explodes underwater, with the loss of its 57-man crew.
2012 A series of explosions at a munitions dump in Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of the Congo, kills at least 250 people.
2018 The world’s worst listeria outbreak, which killed 180 people, is tracked to a processed meat factory in Polokwane.
2022 Four tons of rocket debris crashes into the far side of the moon. It is believed to be a booster from China’s Chang’e 5-T1 mission.
2022 A suicide bomb attack on a Shia mosque in the Pakistani city of Peshawar kills at least 56 people and injures 190.
2023 Leaked US documents on the war in Ukraine from the US Defence Department begin appearing on a Discord server associated with the online game Minecraft.
2023 The historic High Seas Treaty is finalised during an intergovernmental conference at the UN. The first international ocean protection agreement in 40 years, it aims to establish protected areas for 30% of the world’s seas by 2030. The treaty to protect biodiversity in waters outside national boundaries had been under discussion for more than 20 years.
2025 President Donald Trump speaks to the US Congress in the longest-ever speech by a president at 99 minutes. It includes a vow the US will acquire Greenland: “we’re going to get it – one way or the other”.
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