1959
Luna 1 launched
The first spacecraft to fly by the Moon and also to orbit the Sun, Mechta (Luna 1) was launched by the USSR.
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1492
Muhammad XI, the leader of the last Arab stronghold in Spain, surrendered to King Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella I.
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1788
Georgia was admitted to the Union as the 4th state.
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1839
Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre took the first photograph of the Moon.
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1905
The Russo-Japanese war ended.
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1923
The African-American town of Rosewood, Fla., was burned by a white mob.
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1935
The Bruno R. Hauptmann trial began for the kidnap and murder of the Lindbergh baby.
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1994
Rudolph Giuliani is inaugurated as New York City's mayor.
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