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🚀 Time Machine
-1520
Magellan's fleet reached Cape Virgenes after crossing the Strait of Magellan, becoming the first Europeans to enter the Pacific Ocean.
-1797
After two failed launches, the USS Constitution finally sailed into Boston Harbor.
-1805
British Admiral Horatio Nelson defeats the combined French and Spanish fleet at Trafalgar. He is shot and killed during the battle.
-1854
Florence Nightingale was sent to the Crimean War with 38 nurses.
-1861
Union troops suffer a devastating defeat at Ball's Bluff, the Civil War's second major engagement.
-1944
U.S. troops take Aachen, the first big German city to fall in World War II.
-1948
UN rejects Russian proposal to destroy atomic weapons.
-1950
Chinese Communist forces occupy Tibet.
-1959
Guggenheim Museum opens in New York City.
-1964
George Cukor's "My Fair Lady," starring Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn, premiered in New York. (Academy Award Best Picture, 1965)
-1966
Coal waste slides into a school, killing 116 children and 28 adults in Aberfan, South Wales.
-1993
Ex-Burundi President Jean-Baptiste Bagaza leads a failed coup, 525,000 Hutus flee, and President Melchior Ndadaye is assassinated.
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Participants in the "Congress of Freaks" from the Ringling Bros. & Barnum & Bailey Circus, 1924
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“I was born as a lily in the garden, and like the lily I grew, as my age advanced / I became old and had to die, and so I withered and died.”