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Events. 1807 – Robert Fulton's first American steamboat leaves New York City for Albany, New York on the Hudson River, inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world.
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August 2024 Deir el-Balah attacks. Eighteen people from the same family are killed in an airstrike in the town of Az-Zawayda in the Gaza Strip. Israeli incursions in the West Bank during the Israel–Hamas war. Two senior Hamas militants are killed in an Israeli airstrike in Jenin in the occupied West Bank.
On December 8, 1963, Pan Am Flight 214 crashed near Elkton, Maryland, killing all 81 crew and passengers.Flight 214 had originated at Isla Verde International Airport in San Juan, flying to Friendship Airport near Baltimore, and then took off for Philadelphia.
August 2022 Kabul mosque bombing. Twenty-one people are killed and 33 others are injured by a mosque bombing in Kabul. Business and economy. 2021–2022 inflation surge. Inflation in the United Kingdom increases to 10.1%, the highest level since February 1982, due to increasing fuel and food prices. (The Guardian) Disasters and accidents
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Business and economy Cisco announces a cut of 5,500 jobs in their shift from switches to software. (Reuters) Energy Future Holdings, a Texas electric utility, asks a bankruptcy court in Delaware to confirm a plan that would allow it to exit Chapter 11 after more than two years. (Reuters) Disasters and accidents Eight people are seriously injured when a passenger train collides with a tree that ...