Teacher's
Day or Eid Al Moalim (Lebanon)
Events
1009 – First known mention of Lithuania,
in the annals of the monastery of Quedlinburg.
1276 – Augsburg becomes an Imperial Free
City.
1842 – The first documented discovery of
gold in California occurs at Rancho San
Francisco, six years before the California
Gold Rush.
1910 – The Westmoreland County Coal Strike,
involving 15,000 coal miners represented
by the United Mine Workers, begins.
1957 – A magnitude 8.3 earthquake in the
Andreanof Islands, Alaska triggers a Pacific-wide
tsunami causing extensive damage to Hawaii
and Oahu.
1959 – The Barbie doll makes its debut at
the American International Toy Fair in New
York.
1960 – Dr. Belding Hibbard Scribner implants
for the first time a shunt he invented into
a patient, which allows the patient to receive
hemodialysis on a regular basis.
1961 – Sputnik 9 successfully launches,
carrying a human dummy nicknamed Ivan Ivanovich,
and demonstrating that Soviet Union was
ready to begin human spaceflight.
1976 – Forty-two people die in the 1976
Cavalese cable-car disaster, the worst cable-car
accident to date.
1997 – Comet Hale-Bopp: Observers in China,
Mongolia and eastern Siberia are treated
to a rare double feature as an eclipse permits
Hale-Bopp to be seen during the day.
2010 – The first same-sex marriages in Washington,
D.C., take place.
2011 – Space Shuttle Discovery makes its
final landing after 39 flights.
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