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1917 – A ship carrying TNT and picric acid in Halifax Harbour, Canada, caught fire after a collision and caused one of the largest accidental explosions in history (pictured). 1956 – In what became known as the Blood in the Water match at the Melbourne Olympics , the Hungarian water polo team defeated the Soviet Union 4–0 against the ...
December 7 – Aaron Montgomery Ward, businessman, inventor of mail order (born 1844) December 19 – Gustav Oelwein, founder of Oelwein, Iowa (born 1838) December 25 – Letitia Stevenson, Second Lady of the United States (born 1843) December 26 – Ambrose Bierce, writer and journalist, lost after this date in Mexican Revolution (born 1842)
The date of Friday December 13 20:45:52 1901 is significant for modern computers because it is the earliest date representable with a signed 32-bit integer on systems that reference time in seconds since the Unix epoch. This corresponds to −2147483648 seconds from Thursday January 1 00:00:00 1970.
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The idea started as a way to remember historical events and significant people and has grown to include all kinds of topics. It's important to reflect on our history and not forget the issues that ...
December 13, 2024 at 3:02 AM Today is Friday the 13th, an occurrence that happens only a couple of times a year. This is the second Friday the 13th of 2024, just two months after the last one in ...
CSS Baltic was a casemate ironclad that served in the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War.A towboat and cotton lighter before the war, it was purchased by the state of Alabama in December 1861 for conversion into an ironclad.