On This Day in History |
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1788 US Constitution comes into effect when New Hampshire is the 9th state to ratify it. |
1854 First Victoria Cross won during the bombardment of Bomarsund in the Aland Islands during the Crimean War. |
 | The original Broadway cast of South Pacific – the first million-selling LP |
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1948 Columbia Records unveil the 33-1/3 rpm LP phonograph record invented by Peter Carl Goldmark, allowing up to 20 minutes per side (available in 10 and 12 inch diameters), at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, NYC; over the next decade its popularity and profitability push the 78 rpm out of production. |
1948 Lord Mountbatten resigns as Governor General of India (formerly the last Viceroy). |
1993 English mathematician Andrew Wiles proves last theorem of French mathematician Pierre de Fermat after 356 years, the world's most difficult maths problem. |
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Also Judy Holliday and Lana Del Rey (39). |
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Also Edward III and Santa Anna. |
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There had been a church on this London spot for well over 1,000 years but it seemed only a miracle could save it from the inferno caused by 100,000 bombs. |
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