On This Day in History |
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768 Charlemagne and his brother Carloman I are both crowned King of the Franks |
1000 Leif Ericson reaches "Vinland" (possibly L'Anse aux Meadows, Canada), reputedly becoming the first European to reach North America |
1446 Korean Hangul alphabet is first published by King Sejong the Great |
 | 'Calutron Girls' monitoring a mass spectrometer during the Manhattan Project. Gladys Owens, in the foreground, did not know what she was involved with until seeing this picture on a tour fifty years later. |
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1941 US President Franklin D. Roosevelt approves an atomic program that would become the Manhattan Project |
2006 North Korea conducts its first nuclear test with an estimated yield of between 0.4 and 2 kilotons |
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Also Emil Fischer and Alfred Dreyfus. |
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The British Navy ship HMS Lutine was carrying a fortune in silver and gold bullion when it foundered in a storm on this day. The treasure was lost forever. |
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