79 //// Mt. Vesuvius erupts, burries Pompeii, Herculanaun 15,000 die
1215 //// Pope Innocence III declares Magna Carta invalid
1349 //// 6,000 Jews blamed for plague are killed in Manz
1456 //// Printing of Gutenberg Bible is completed
1572 //// King Charles IX orders massacre of thousands of French Protestants
1682 //// Duke James of York gives Delaware to William Penn
1787 //// Wolfgang A Motzart completes his viola Sonata in A, k526
1847 //// Charlotte Bronte finishes Jane Eyre
1905 //// Chicago Cubs beat Phillies in 20 innings 2-1
1909 //// Workers start pouring concrete for Panama Canal
1929 //// Palestinians attack Orthodox Jews in Jeruselum
1940 //// Luftwaffe bombs London
1960 //// -127 degrees F in Vostok, Antartica (record)
1976 //// Soyuz 21 returns to Earth
1981 //// Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life for murdering John Lennon
1991 //// Gorbachev resigns as head of U.S.S.R.
1995 //// Windows 95 debuts
2000 //// Argon fluorohydride, the first Argon compound ever known, discovered at U. Of Helsinki by a Finnish scientist
2004 //// 84 passengers die after 2 airlines explode after flying out of Domodedove Airport near Moscow. caused by 2 suicide bombers from Chechnya
2011 /// Steve Jobs, head of Apple, resigns
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