Today:
1789 – New Jersey became the first U.S. state to ratify the Bill of Rights.
1820 – The American whaling ship Essex was attacked and sunk by a sperm whale in the Pacific Ocean, an event that inspired Herman Melville’s *Moby-Dick*.
1866 – Howard University, a historically black university, was founded in Washington, D.C.
1889 – The first jukebox was installed at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco.
1945 – The Nuremberg Trials began in Germany, where key Nazi leaders were prosecuted for war crimes.
1947 – Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) married Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh, in Westminster Abbey.
1959 – The United Nations adopted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child.
1969 – The first-ever permanent ARPANET link was established, marking the foundation of the internet.
1985 – Microsoft released the first version of Windows, Windows 1.0.
1998 – The International Space Station (ISS) received its first component, Zarya, marking the beginning of its assembly in orbit.
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