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1717-Signing the treaty of the “Triple Alliance” between the Dutch Republic, France and Great Britain.
1896- Utah becomes the 45th state of the US.
1948 – Burma declares independence from UK.
1959 – Luna 1 becomes the 1st craft to leave Earth’s gravity.
1962 – 1st automated (unmanned) subway train in New York City.
1989- US warplanes shoot down two Libyan warplanes inside the Libyan territorial water in the Mediterranean.
2004 – Spirit, a NASA Mars Rover, lands successfully on Mars.
2007 – The United States Congress elects Nancy Pelosi as the first female Speaker of the House in U.S. history.
2010 – Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the world’s tallest building, is officially opened.
Born Today:
1643- Isaac Newton, British scientist who developed the laws of gravity and planetary relations.
1809-Louis Braille, developer of a reading system for the blind.
Passed away:
1960- French Nobel Prize laureate author Albert Camus.
1965- British poet TS Eliot.
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