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2011 Amid health issues, Steve Jobs resigned as CEO of Apple, and he died less than two months later.


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1944: Paris is liberated as Germans surrender
General Charles de Gaulle enters the capital of France after French and US troops force a German surrender.


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1994: Man gets 'bionic' heart
A man is given the world's first battery-operated heart in a pioneering operation in Britain.


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1967: Beatles' manager Epstein dies
The Beatles' manager, Brian Epstein, is found dead at his Belgravia home in London.


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1993 The spacecraft Galileo took pictures of the asteroid Ida.


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New Orleans hit by Hurricane Katrina
On this day in 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck the U.S. Gulf Coast and devastated the area, especially New Orleans, which experienced catastrophic flooding after its levees were breached the following day.


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U.S. astronaut Guion S. Bluford, Jr., became on this day in 1983 the first African American to travel into space, serving as a mission specialist aboard the shuttle orbiter Challenger, and later flew on three other missions.


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1966 The Harrier “jump-jet” fighter-bomber made its first flight.


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German invasion of Poland
The lethal combination of German blitzkrieg tactics, French and British inactivity, and Soviet perfidy doomed Poland to swift defeat after Adolf Hitler invaded the country this day in 1939 and sparked World War II.


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Great Fire of London
On this day in 1666 the Great Fire of London began accidentally in the house of the king's baker; it burned for four days and destroyed a large part of the city, including Old St. Paul's Cathedral and about 13,000 houses.


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1609 English navigator Henry Hudson, in a quest for a passage to India on behalf of the Dutch East India Company, sailed into the harbour of present-day New York City and up the river that now bears his name.


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2006 Australian wildlife conservationist and television personality Steve Irwin, who achieved worldwide fame as the exuberant and risk-taking host of The Crocodile Hunter (1992–2006) TV series and related documentaries, was killed by a venomous bull stingray.


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1959: UK's first trunk call from a pay phone
The first trunk dialling system from a public call-box is launched during a ceremonial phone call from Bristol to London.


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1952: Dozens die in air show tragedy
At least 27 people, mostly spectators, are killed as a jet fighter breaks up over the crowd at an air show in Hampshire, England.


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Battle of Arsuf
On this day in 1191 the Muslim army of Saladin attacked the Crusaders of Richard I (the Lion-Heart) at the Battle of Arsuf, and, though Richard successfully counterattacked in the evening, his march to Jerusalem was delayed.


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