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1762 – Seven Years' War: Battle of Signal Hill. [2]1776 – American Revolutionary War: British forces land at Kip's Bay during the New York Campaign. [3]1789 – The United States "Department of Foreign Affairs", established by law in July, is renamed the Department of State and given a variety of domestic duties.
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1301 – King Andrew III died without any male heirs, ending the Árpád dynasty, which had ruled Hungary since the late 9th century.; 1900 – Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca (poster pictured), based on the play La Tosca by French dramatist Victorien Sardou, premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome.
Google is turning 17! It seems like such a gigantic company should be much older, but it wasn't even two decades ago that the very first iteration of today's most used search engine went online.
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President Joe Biden pardoned five people on Sunday, including the late civil rights leader Marcus Garvey, and commuted the sentences of two, the White House said in a statement.. Garvey, who died ...
1377 – Gregory XI, the last Avignon pope, entered Rome after a four-month journey from Avignon, returning the papacy to its original city.; 1893 – Lorrin A. Thurston and the Citizens' Committee of Public Safety led the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom and the government of Queen LiliÊ»uokalani (pictured).
1697 – Battle of Zenta: a major engagement in the Great Turkish War (1683–1699) and one of the most decisive defeats in Ottoman history. [ 7 ] 1708 – Charles XII of Sweden stops his march to conquer Moscow outside Smolensk , marking the turning point in the Great Northern War .