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Oct. 17, 690 C.E.: Empress Wu Zetian of China established...
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Oct. 10, 1911: The 1911 Revolution began in China.
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Oct. 3, 1985: Space Shuttle Atlantis made its maiden flight.
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Sept. 26, 1969: “Abbey Road,” the last recorded album...
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Sept. 19, 1985: An earthquake devastated Mexico City.
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Sept. 12, 1953: John F. Kennedy married Jacqueline Lee...
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Sept. 5, 1977: NASA launched Voyager 1.
The Voyager...
Aug. 29, 1533: Inca Emperor Atahualpa is executed by Spanish conquistadors.
Atahualpa was born to Inca emperor Huayna Capac and an Ecuadorian princess in 1502. He ruled as the 13th emperor of the...
April 25, 1940: American actor Alfredo James “Al” Pacino was born.
Pacino was born to Italian-American parents in East Harlem, New York, and was raised in the Bronx by his mother and her parents,...
April 11, 1970: Apollo 13 was launched.
After the successes of the Apollo 11 and the Apollo 12 missions, Apollo 13 was set to be NASA’s third moon-landing mission. The mission was manned by astronauts...
April 4, 1975: Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded the Microsoft Corporation.
Childhood friends Gates and Allen founded the Microsoft Corporation in 1975, originally named Micro-Soft for microprocessors...
