On This Day in History | ||||||||
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Historical Events | ||||||||
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1752 Britain and the British Empire, including the American colonies, adopt the Gregorian calendar after skipping 11 days between September 3 and September 13 | ||||||||
1922 Burning of Smyrna, the Asia Minor Catastrophe to Greeks: Ottoman army expels Greeks and other non-Turks from Asia Minor, destroying much of the port city of Smyrna (August 13 OS) | ||||||||
1939 World's first practical helicopter, the VS-300, designed by Igor Sikorsky, takes (tethered) flight in Stratford, Connecticut | ||||||||
1949 India's Constituent Assembly adopts Hindi as an official language, celebrated today as Hindi Day | ||||||||
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1956 IBM introduces the RAMAC 305, the first commercial computer with a hard drive with magnetic disk storage, weighs over a ton | ||||||||
1960 Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela form the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) | ||||||||
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Famous Birthdays | ||||||||
Also Jacobo Árbenz and Amy Winehouse. | ||||||||
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Famous Deaths | ||||||||
Also Aaron Burr and Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza. | ||||||||
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Fatal Legacy of a Beautiful Riviera | ||||||||
Two famous American women – Grace Kelly and Isadora Duncan, both died after tragic motoring accidents in the same area on this day, though half a century apart. | ||||||||
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Saturday, September 14, 2024
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