1512
"A veritable beacon to our art"
Michelangelo's paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel were shown to the public for the first time.
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1755
Earthquake, fires, and tsunami leveled Lisbon and claimed 70,000 lives.
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1765
The Stamp Act, the first direct tax on the American colonies, went into effect.
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1870
The U.S. Weather Bureau made its first meteorological observations.
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1936
Benito Mussolini described the new alliance between Nazi Germany and Italy as an "axis" running between Berlin and Rome.
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1952
The United States exploded the first hydrogen bomb in a test in the Marshall Islands.
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1993
The Maastricht Treaty was enacted, establishing the European Union.
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