Today:
497 BC: The first Saturnalia festival was celebrated in ancient Rome, honoring the god Saturn with feasting and merriment.
546 AD: Ostrogoth King Totila captured Rome during the Gothic War.
1398: Timur (Tamerlane) led his army in the capture of Delhi, marking a brutal sack of the city.
1538: Pope Paul III excommunicated King Henry VIII of England after his split with the Catholic Church.
1777: France officially recognized the United States of America as an independent nation during the American Revolutionary War.
1790: Discovery of the Aztec calendar stone, a massive sculpture, in Mexico City.
1903: The Wright brothers achieved the first powered, controlled, and sustained heavier-than-air human flight near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
1935: The first flight of the Douglas DC-3, an aircraft that revolutionized air transport.
1969: The U.S. Air Force closed Project Blue Book, concluding no evidence of UFOs being extraterrestrial.
2014: The United States and Cuba announced the normalization of diplomatic relations after over 50 years of hostility.
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