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240 BC \u2013 The first recorded perihelion passage of Halley’s Comet is documented in the Chinese chronicle \u53f2\u8a18<\/span><\/span> <\/strong>–<\/i>\u00a0Shiji,<\/em> Records of the Grand Historian.<\/p>\n 1085 \u2013 During the Reconquista, the forces of Alfonso VI of Castile retake Toledo, Spain, back from the Moors.<\/p>\n 1521 \u2013 The Diet of Worms ends when Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Edict of Worms, declaring Martin Luther an outlaw.<\/p>\n 1738 \u2013 King George II intervenes to end the armed conflict between Pennsylvania and Maryland colonies over their border and orders negotiations to begin that will later result in the Mason-Dixon Line.<\/p>\n 1787 \u2013 After a quorum of seven states is finally secured, the U.S. Convention of the States formally convenes in Philadelphia, and elects George Washington as President of the convention.<\/p>\n 1865 \u2013 In Mobile, Alabama, an ordnance warehouse on Beauregard Street, containing 200 tons of shells and powder, explodes, killing around 300 people and causing a fire that burns down the northern part of the city.<\/p>\n 1925 \u2013 In Dayton, Tennessee, John T. Scopes is indicted for violating the Butler Act which made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state funded school.<\/p>\n 1953 \u2013 At Frenchman Flat at the Nevada Test Site, the United States Army conducts its first and only nuclear artillery test, the Grable<\/em> shot of Upshot\u2013Knothole,\u00a0<\/em>firing a 15 kiloton device from an M65 ‘Atomic Annie’ Cannon.<\/p>\n 1955 \u2013 An F5 force tornado strikes Udall, Kansas, killing 80 people and injuring another 273.<\/p>\n 1961 \u2013 Speaking before a joint session of Congress, President Kennedy announces his goal to initiate a project to put a “man on the Moon” before the end of the decade.<\/p>\n 1968 \u2013 The Gateway Arch, the tallest man made monument in the Western Hemisphere, is formally dedicated by Vice President Hubert Humphrey<\/p>\n 1978 \u2013 The first bomb set by the Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski,\u00a0 detonates at Northwestern University but only causes some minor injuries.<\/p>\n 1979 \u2013 American Airlines Flight 191, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 looses its left engine and crashes during takeoff at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago, killing all 271 passengers and crew on board, and 2 people on the ground.<\/p>\n 1999 \u2013 The House of Representatives releases the Cox Report which details the People’s Republic of China’s nuclear espionage against the U.S. over the prior two decades.<\/p>\n 2001 \u2013 American adventurer Erik Weihenmayer becomes the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest.<\/p>\n 2008 \u2013 NASA’s Phoenix<\/em> lander touches down in the ‘Green Valley’ region within Vastitas Borealis<\/em> of\u00a0Mars to search for environments suitable for water and microbial life.<\/p>\n 2012 \u2013 The SpaceX Dragon<\/em> supply ship becomes the first commercial spacecraft to successfully rendezvous and berth with the International Space Station.<\/p>\n 2020 \u2013 George Floyd, under arrest for passing counterfeit money in Minneapolis, Minnesota, dies while in police custody. 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