1929
Crash!
The New York Stock Exchange crashed on Black Tuesday, precipitating the Great Depression.
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1682
William Penn arrived in Pennsylvania.
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1787
Mozart's opera Don Giovanni debuted in Prague.
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1911
American newspaperman Joseph Pulitzer died in Charleston, S.C.
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1923
The Republic of Turkey was proclaimed under Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
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1956
Israel invaded the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula during the Suez Canal crisis.
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1964
The Star of India and other gems were stolen from the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
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1966
The National Organization for Women was founded.
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1998
John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth, returned to space at age 77.
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2004
European leaders signed the European Union's first constitution.
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2008
A 6.5 magnitude earthquake struck Baluchistan, one of Pakistan's poorest regions. At least 200 people were killed and more than 15,000 were left homeless.
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2012
Hurricane Sandy smashed into the eastern seaboard of the U.S., killing 117 people in the U.S. and 69 in Canada and the Caribbean. The storm caused about $50 billion in damage in the U.S.
