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🚀 Time Machine
-1512
The Spanish Crown issued the Laws of Burgos, which governed settlers' behavior toward natives in the New World.
-1657
The Flushing Remonstrance was signed in New Netherland, protesting the ban on Quaker worship and advocating for religious freedom.
-1904
James Barrie's play Peter Pan opens at the Duke of York's Theatre in London.
-1932
New York City's Radio City Music Hall, designed by Edward Durell Stone and Donald Deskey, opens at Rockefeller Center in Manhattan.
-1939
A magnitude eight earthquake kills 20,000 to 40,000 people in Erzincan, Turkey.
-1945
The IMF and IBRD were established when member countries signed agreements based on the Bretton Woods Conference.
-1949
Queen Juliana of the Netherlands recognized Indonesia's independence after four years of revolution and UN mediation.
-1968
Apollo 8, the first manned mission to the moon, returns safely after a historic six-day journey.
-2007
Benazir Bhutto, the first female prime minister of a Muslim country, was assassinated at 54 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
📸 Snapshot
This is how Idaho winters looked in 1952
🗨️ Final Words
“I don’t know what I may seem to the world. But as to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than the ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.“