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🚀 Time Machine
-771
Charlemagne became the sole King of the Franks after his brother Carloman's death.
-1456
The Naples earthquake killed 35,000 people in central Italy.
-1848
US President James K. Polk sparked the Gold Rush by confirming a gold discovery in California.
-1872
The Mary Celeste, an American ship with a missing crew, is found at the Azores. The ship is seaworthy, with untouched supplies, but no one was aboard.
-1933
US Prohibition ended at 5:32 PM EST with the ratification of the 21st Amendment, which repealed the 18th Amendment.
-1945
Five Avenger torpedo bombers disappear in the Bermuda Triangle. They never returned.
-1952
Heavy smog hovers over London for five days, killing at least 4,000 people.
-1964
Capt. Roger Donlon of Saugerties, New York, received the first Medal of Honor for action in Vietnam earlier this year.
-1969
UCLA, Stanford, UCSB, and the University of Utah established a four-node ARPANET network.
-1978
U.S.S.R. and Afghanistan sign “friendship treaty”, further escalating their disastrous involvement in the Afghan civil war, which began in 1979.
-1984
Action-comedy Beverly Hills Cop, starring Eddie Murphy, was released, marking his first major starring role.
-2001
Ocean's Eleven, starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, and Julia Roberts, premiered.
-2017
Russia was banned from the next Winter Olympics in South Korea for state-sponsored doping.
📸 Snapshot
10,000 barrels of beer were draining from a Brooklyn army base into New York Harbor during Prohibition, 1920
🗨️ Final Words
“Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet."