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10,045 illustrations — Lessons from history, biography, and world events
5/8 (1877): At Gilmore's Gardens in New York City, the first Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show opens.
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1/1 (1804): French rule ends in Haiti. Haiti becomes the first black-majority republic and second independent country in North America after the United States.
This becomes known as "The Miracle on the Hudson" as all 155 people on board were rescued.
1/1 (1984): The original American Telephone & Telegraph Company is divested of its 22 Bell System companies as a result of the settlement of the 1974 United States Department of Justice antitrust suit against AT&T.
4/1 (1946): The Malayan Union is established. Protests from locals led to the establishment of the Federation of Malaya two years later.
6/19 (1586): English colonists leave Roanoke Island, after failing to establish England's first permanent settlement in North America.
5/8 (1919): Edward George Honey proposes the idea of a moment of silence to commemorate the Armistice of 11 November 1918 which ended World War I.
11/11 (1918): Józef Piłsudski assumes supreme military power in Poland - symbolic first day of Polish independence.
1/15 (2005): ESA's SMART-1 lunar orbiter discovers elements such as calcium, aluminum, silicon, iron, and other surface elements on the Moon.
1/1 (1776): General George Washington hoists the first United States flag, the Continental Union Flag, at Prospect Hill.
11/9 (1967): Apollo program: NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft, atop the first Saturn V rocket, from Florida's Cape Kennedy.
1/1 (1847): The world's first "Mercy" Hospital is founded in Pittsburgh, United States, by a group of Sisters of Mercy from Ireland; the name will go on to grace over 30 major hospitals throughout the world.
1/20 (1265): The first English parliament to include not only Lords but also representatives of the major towns holds its first meeting in the Palace of Westminster, now commonly known as the "Houses of Parliament".
Soviet troops begin to re-enter Hungary, contrary to assurances by the Soviet government. János Kádár and Ferenc Münnich secretly defect to the Soviets.
9/2 (2010): Israel-Palestinian conflict: the 2010 Israeli-Palestinian peace talks are launched by the United States.
7/4 (2015): Chile claims its first title in international football by defeating Argentina in the 2015 Copa América Final.
Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King becomes the first Canadian citizen.
1/1 (1860): The first Polish postage stamp is issued, replacing the Russian stamps previously in use.
8/6 (1824): Peruvian War of Independence: Patriot forces led by Simón Bolívar defeat the Spanish Royalist army in the Battle of Junín.
12/25 (2003): The ill-fated Beagle 2 probe, released from the Mars Express spacecraft on December 19, stops transmitting shortly before its scheduled landing.
9/2 (1957): President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam becomes the first foreign head of state to make a state visit to Australia.
1/1 (1739): Bouvet Island, the world's remotest island, is discovered by French explorer Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier.
6/19 (1964): The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the United States Senate.