Today:
1642 – Dutch navigator Abel Tasman became the first European to discover Van Diemen’s Land, later named Tasmania, in Australia.
1859 – Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species was published, laying the foundation for the theory of evolution by natural selection.
1863 – The Battle of Lookout Mountain during the American Civil War took place near Chattanooga, Tennessee, with Union forces achieving victory.
1874 – Joseph Glidden was granted a patent for barbed wire, revolutionizing fencing and ranching in the American West.
1922 – Irish author Erskine Childers was executed by the Irish Free State during the Irish Civil War, accused of carrying a firearm.
1932 – The FBI Crime Lab officially opened, becoming a cornerstone of forensic science in the United States.
1944 – A significant bombing raid on Tokyo occurred during World War II, part of the Allies’ strategic campaign in the Pacific.
1963 – Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, was killed by Jack Ruby while in police custody.
1971 – A man known as D. B. Cooper hijacked a Northwest Orient Airlines plane, extorted $200,000, and parachuted into the wilderness, disappearing without a trace.
1991 – Freddie Mercury, lead singer of the band Queen, passed away in London from complications of AIDS, a day after publicly announcing his diagnosis.
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