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A wildfire (pictured) in Japan's Iwate Prefecture becomes the largest in the country in at least five decades.; Chinese architect Liu Jiakun is awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize.
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Events. 1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Fort Wagner/Morris Island - The first formal African American military unit, the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, unsuccessfully assaults Confederate-held Battery Wagner but their valiant fighting still proves the worth of African American soldiers during the war.
Largest TB Outbreak In U.S. History Is Happening sanjeri - Getty Images It’s easy to think that tuberculosis is an illness from another era. But the United States is actually experiencing the ...
Scientists are using a UC Santa Cruz greenhouse to recreate the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs. They want to learn why some species survived when so many did not.
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491 – Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine emperor, with the name of Anastasius I. [1]1241 – Batu Khan defeats Béla IV of Hungary at the Battle of Mohi. [2]1512 – War of the League of Cambrai: Franco-Ferrarese forces led by Gaston de Foix and Alfonso I d'Este win the Battle of Ravenna against the Papal-Spanish forces.