1380 Battle on Kulikovo: Moscow's great monarch Dimitri defeats the Mongols beginning the decline of the Tatars 1504 Michelangelo's Statue of David is unveiled in Florence 1522 Spanish navigator Juan de Elcano returns to Spain, completing 1st circumnavigation of the globe (expedition began under Ferdinand Magellan) 1565 1st permanent European settlement in the US founded at St. Augustine, Florida 1664 Dutch surrender colony of New Netherlands (including New York) to 300 English soldiers 1941 WWII: Siege of Leningrad by German, Finnish, and eventually Spanish troops begins; battle lasted over 28 months, as Russia repels the invasion; well over a million lives 1970 Black September hijackings begin, three airliners hijacked and blown up by Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine 1986 "The Oprah Winfrey Show" is first broadcast nationally | 
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