On this day in 1528, shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca becomes the first known European to set foot in the area that would become Texas.
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On this day in
1861,
Jefferson Davis is elected president of the Confederate States of America.
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On this day in
1869, in New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers College defeats Princeton University (then known as the College of New Jersey), 6–4, in the first official intercollegiate American football game.
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On this day in
1913,
Mohandas Gandhi is arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.
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On this day in
1917, the Bolshevik revolution begins with the capture of the Winter Palace. Chaos ensues.
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On this day in
1944, plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the
Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
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On this day in
1947,
Meet the Press makes its television debut (the show went to a weekly schedule on September 12, 1948).
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On this day in
1962, the United Nations General Assembly passes a resolution condemning South Africa's racist apartheid policies and calls for all UN member states to cease military and economic relations with the nation.
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On this day in
1990,
Arsenio Hall gets a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame, thereby causing the value of neighboring stars to plummet drastically.
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On this day in
1995, the
Rova of Antananarivo, home of the sovereigns of Madagascar from the 16th to 19th centuries, is destroyed by fire.
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