Today:
1851 – The first YMCA in North America is established in Montreal, Canada.
1863 – Abraham Lincoln announces his plan for Reconstruction, including the Ten Percent Plan.
1886 – American poet Emily Dickinson dies in Amherst, Massachusetts.
1914 – The Battle of the Falkland Islands occurs during World War I; British naval forces decisively defeat the German fleet.
1941 – The United States and the United Kingdom declare war on Japan following the attack on Pearl Harbor.
1949 – The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is established by the UN General Assembly.
1953 – Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers his “Atoms for Peace” speech to the UN General Assembly, proposing peaceful uses for nuclear energy.
1980 – John Lennon, former Beatle, is assassinated outside his apartment in New York City.
1991 – Leaders of Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine sign the Belavezha Accords, effectively dissolving the Soviet Union.
2010 – SpaceX becomes the first private company to launch, orbit, and recover a spacecraft with its Dragon capsule.
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