On This Day in History |
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 | The Battle of Svolder, a naval battle fought between King Olaf Tryggvason of Norway and an alliance of his enemies |
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1000 Battle of Svolder, Baltic Sea: King Olaf on board the Long Serpent is defeated in one of the greatest naval battles of the Viking Age and leaps to his death overboard |
1776 Congress officially renames the country as the United States of America (from the United Colonies) |
1817 Alexander Twilight, likely the first African American to graduate from a US college, receives a BA degree from Middlebury College |
1914 First fully mechanized unit in the British Army created - the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade (WWI) |
1993 Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization exchange letters of mutual recognition |
2015 Queen Elizabeth II becomes Great Britain's longest-reigning monarch at 63 years and seven months, beating the previous record set by her great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria |
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Also Aurelian and Otis Redding. |
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Also James IV and Ahmad Shah Massoud. |
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William Bligh, born on this day, became known as a sadistic sea captain who drove his men to the Mutiny on the Bounty. But was he in fact a victim of fiction? |
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