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On this day/Today. 1799 – Jeanne Geneviève Garnerin became the first woman to make a parachute descent, falling 900 metres (3,000 ft) in the gondola of a hot air balloon. 1890 – The Uddevalla Suffrage Association was founded in Uddevalla, Sweden, with the purpose of bringing about universal suffrage. 1928 – The iron lung (example ...
August 7 is the 219th day of ... 1930 – The last confirmed lynching of black people in the ... 1962 – Canadian-born American pharmacologist Frances Oldham ...
1913 – A tornado outbreak kills more than 240 people in the central United States, while an ongoing flood in the Ohio River watershed was killing 650 people. [3] 1918 – First World War: On the third day of the German Spring Offensive, the 10th Battalion of the Royal West Kent Regiment is annihilated with many of the men becoming prisoners ...
2011 – Radio broadcaster Harold Camping predicted that the world would end on this date. 2012 – A bus accident near Himara, Albania kills 13 people and injures 21 others. 2012 – A suicide bombing kills more than 120 people in Sana'a, Yemen. 2014 – Random killings occurred on the Bannan Line of the Taipei MRT, killing four and injuring ...
September 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Independence Day (Botswana) or Botswana Day, celebrates the independence of Botswana from United Kingdom in 1966. International Translation Day (International Federation of Translators) [ 62 ] National Day for Truth and Reconciliation or Orange Shirt Day (Canada) [ 63 ][ 64 ]
2008– Stockpiles of obsolete ammunition explodeat an ex-military ammunition depot in the village of Gërdec, Albania, killing 26 people. [38] 2011– Beginning of the Syrian Civil War. [39] 2019– Fifty-one people are killed in the Christchurch mosque shootings. [40] 2019 – Beginning of the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests.
1967 – The National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam organizes a march of fifty thousand people from the Lincoln Memorial to the Pentagon. 1969 – The 1969 Somali coup d'état establishes a Marxist–Leninist administration. 1971 – A gas explosion kills 22 people at a shopping centre near Glasgow, Scotland.
Launched. 1996 ; 28 years ago (original) Current status. Active. Written in. HTML, JavaScript. Famous Birthdays is an American website based in Santa Monica, California, [ 1 ] which is dedicated to cataloging the birthdays of famous people and compiling other facts about them. [ 2 ][ 3 ]