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🚀 Time Machine
-1598
Korean and Chinese fleets decisively defeated the Japanese in the final naval battle of the Imjin War.
-1653
Parliamentarian General Oliver Cromwell was appointed as Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
-1773
Sons of Liberty protesters threw tea into Boston Harbor to protest the British-imposed Tea Act and the escalating taxes imposed without representation in Parliament.
-1920
China's Gansu Province was rocked by an earthquake of 8.5 magnitude, killing an estimated 200,000 people.
-1944
Nazi Germany launches a counteroffensive against the Allies in the Ardennes of Belgium, starting the Battle of the Bulge.
-1950
Harry S. Truman declared a state of emergency after the massive Chinese intervention in the Korean War.
-1998
The US House of Representatives' Committee on the Judiciary releases a 265-page report impeaching Clinton for high crimes and misdemeanors.
-1998
The U.S. and U.K. bomb targets in Iraq to weaken its capacity for weapons of mass destruction during Operation Desert Fox.
-2009
Avatar, one of the most expensive and successful films ever, premiered in the US and became the highest-grossing film for nearly a decade.
📸 Snapshot
This was a way to test football helmets back in 1912
🗨️ Final Words
“I believe this is going to be the greatest day of my life!“