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10,045 illustrations — Lessons from history, biography, and world events
11/22 (1943): Lebanon gains independence from France, nearly two years after it was first announced by the Free French government.
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All crew members are killed.
7/14 (1957): Rawya Ateya takes her seat in the National Assembly of Egypt, thereby becoming the first female parliamentarian in the Arab world.
12/7 (1936): Australian cricketer Jack Fingleton becomes the first player to score centuries in four consecutive Test innings.
1/20 (2021): Joe Biden is inaugurated as the 46th President of the United States of America. At the time of his inauguration, he became the oldest person ever inaugurated. Kamala Harris became the first female Vice President of the United States.
1/15 (1822): Greek War of Independence: Demetrios Ypsilantis is elected president of the legislative assembly.
1/15 (1991): Elizabeth II, in her capacity as Queen of Australia, signs letters patent allowing Australia to become the first Commonwealth realm to institute its own Victoria Cross in its honours system.
The aircraft landed at Kandahar in Afghanistan. The incident ended on December 31 with the release of 190 survivors (one passenger is killed).
11/9 (1780): American Revolutionary War: In the Battle of Fishdam Ford a force of British and Loyalist troops fail in a surprise attack against the South Carolina Patriot militia under Brigadier General Thomas Sumter.
7/4 (2004): The cornerstone of the Freedom Tower is laid on the World Trade Center site in New York City.
9/11 (1780): American Revolutionary War: Sugarloaf massacre: A small detachment of militia from Northampton County, Pennsylvania, are attacked by Native Americans and Loyalists near Little Nescopeck Creek.
The ISS has been crewed continuously since then.
9/11 (1792): The Hope Diamond is stolen along with other French crown jewels when six men break into the house where they are stored.
Calvin Jones, and James Crowe form the Ku Klux Klan.
9/11 (1852): Outbreak of Revolution of September 11 resulting in the State of Buenos Aires declaring independence as a Republic.
7/20 (1968): The first International Special Olympics Summer Games are held at Soldier Field in Chicago, with about 1,000 athletes with intellectual disabilities.
11/22 (845): The first duke of Brittany, Nominoe, defeats the Frankish king Charles the Bald at the Battle of Ballon near Redon.
11/9 (1906): Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country, doing so to inspect progress on the Panama Canal.
12/7 (2015): The JAXA probe Akatsuki successfully enters orbit around Venus five years after the first attempt.
12/7 (1965): Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I simultaneously revoke mutual excommunications that had been in place since 1054.
This act impresses the Christian Emperor Honorius, who issues a historic ban on gladiatorial fights.
12/25 (1814): Rev. Samuel Marsden holds the first Christian service on land in New Zealand at Rangihoua Bay.
8/6 (2001): Erwadi fire incident: Twenty-eight mentally ill persons tied to a chain are burnt to death at a faith based institution at Erwadi, Tamil Nadu.