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7/14 (1951): Ferrari take their first Formula One grand prix victory at the British Grand Prix at Silverstone.
11/11 (1813): War of 1812: Battle of Crysler's Farm: British and Canadian forces defeat a larger American force, causing the Americans to abandon their Saint Lawrence campaign.
7/14 (1789): Storming of the Bastille in Paris. This event escalates the widespread discontent into the French Revolution. Bastille Day is still celebrated annually in France.
1/20 (1576): The Mexican city of León is founded by order of the viceroy Don Martín Enríquez de Almanza.
4/22 (1945): World War II: Sachsenhausen concentration camp is liberated by soldiers of the Red Army and Polish First Army.
3/15 (1907): The first parliamentary elections of Finland (at the time the Grand Duchy of Finland) are held.
6/19 (1985): Members of the Revolutionary Party of Central American Workers, dressed as Salvadoran soldiers, attack the Zona Rosa area of San Salvador.
7/4 (1855): The first edition of Walt Whitman's book of poems, Leaves of Grass, is published in Brooklyn.
They performed ten lunar orbits, took the Earthrise photograph, broadcast live TV pictures, and read the first ten verses of Genesis.
12/7 (1724): Tumult of Thorn: Religious unrest is followed by the execution of nine Protestant citizens and the mayor of Thorn (Toruń) by Polish authorities.
1/15 (1541): King Francis I of France gives Jean-François Roberval a commission to settle the province of New France (Canada) and provide for the spread of the "Holy Catholic faith".
2/12 (1502): Isabella I issues an edict outlawing Islam in the Crown of Castile, forcing virtually all her Muslim subjects to convert to Christianity.
7/20 (1951): King Abdullah I of Jordan is assassinated by a Palestinian while attending Friday prayers in Jerusalem.
3/17 (1776): American Revolution: The British Army evacuates Boston, ending the Siege of Boston, after George Washington and Henry Knox place artillery in positions overlooking the city.
7/4 (2009): The Statue of Liberty's crown reopens to the public after eight years of closure due to security concerns following the September 11 attacks.
1/20 (1981): Twenty minutes after Ronald Reagan is inaugurated as the 40th President of the United States of America, Iran releases 52 American hostages.
11/1 (1922): Abolition of the Ottoman sultanate: The last sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed VI, abdicates.
4/1 (1946): The Malayan Union is established. Protests from locals led to the establishment of the Federation of Malaya two years later.
4/22 (1944): The 1st Air Commando Group using Sikorsky R-4 helicopters stage the first use of helicopters in combat with combat search and rescue operations in the China Burma India Theater.
1/1 (1776): General George Washington hoists the first United States flag, the Continental Union Flag, at Prospect Hill.
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.
1/1 (1959): Cuban Revolution: Fulgencio Batista, dictator of Cuba, is overthrown by Fidel Castro's forces.
12/25 (1946): The first European self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction is initiated within the Soviet Union's F-1 nuclear reactor.
6/19 (1964): The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the United States Senate.