| 2007 |
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End , the third movie in the popular Disney series, starring Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom, makes its silver screen debut.
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Soul singer Taylor Hicks is announced winner of the fifth season of FOX-TV's American Idol reality show. R&B singer Katharine McPhee is runner-up.
(photo credit: J-Records)
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| 1999 |
Thirty-nine miners are killed when an underground gas pocket explodes in the Ukraine.
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| 1994 |
The four men convicted in the World Trade Center bombing are each sentenced to 240 years in prison.
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| 1993 |
Eritrea declares its independence from Ethiopia.
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| 1980 |
Iran rejects a request by the World Court in The Hague to release the American hostages.
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| 1976 |
The Concorde supersonic jetliner begins transatlantic service between England and France to Washington, DC. Flight time is just under four hours.
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| 1962 |
NFL owners agree to reduce the halftime of regular season football games to 15 minutes.
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| 1958 |
United Press International is formed through a merger of the United Press and the International News Service.
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| 1941 |
The German battleship Bismarck sinks the British dreadnought Hood in the North Atlantic, during WWII.
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| 1935 |
The first night major league baseball game is played under the lights at Crosley Field in Cincinnati, as the Cincinnati Reds beat Philadelphia 2-1.
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| 1931 |
The B&O (Baltimore and Ohio) Railroad line begins air-conditioned train service between New York City and Washington, DC.
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| 1928 |
The dirigible Italia crosses the North Pole.
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| 1899 |
The first auto repair shop opens in Boston.
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| 1883 |
The Brooklyn Bridge, linking the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Manhattan, opens to traffic.
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| 1881 |
The Canadian ferry Princess Victoria sinks near London, Ontario, killing 200 passengers.
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| 1844 |
Samuel F.B. Morse opens America's first telegraph line between Washington, DC and Baltimore, Maryland, with the message "What hath God wrought?"
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| 1830 |
The first US passenger railroad begins service between Baltimore and Elliott's Mills, Maryland.
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