79
Mount Vesuvius erupts
Mount Vesuvius erupted and buried the towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum.
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1572
70,000 French Protestants, or Huguenots, were killed in the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre.
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1814
The British set fire to the White House and the Capitol when they invaded Washington, DC during the War of 1812.
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1821
Mexico gained its independence from Spain with the Treaty of Cordoba.
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1949
The North Atlantic Treaty went into effect.
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1968
France became the world's fifth nuclear power as it exploded a hydrogen bomb in the South Pacific.
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1989
Pete Rose was banned from baseball for gambling.
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1991
Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as the general secretary of the Communist Party after a failed coup attempt against him.
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1992
Hurricane Andrew hit Florida, causing record damage.
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