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2020 - Israel–United Arab Emirates relations
Israel–United Arab Emirates relations are formally established.
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1961 - Cold War
Cold War: East Germany closes the border between the eastern and western sectors of Berlin to thwart its inhabitants' attempts to escape to the West, and construction of the Berlin Wall is started. The day is known as Barbed Wire Sunday.
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1521 - Hernán Cortés
After an extended siege, forces led by Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés capture Tlatoani Cuauhtémoc and conquer the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan.
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1992 - North American Free Trade Agreement
Canada, Mexico and the United States announce completion of negotiations for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
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1851 - Isaac Singer
Isaac Singer is granted a patent for his sewing machine.
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1492 - Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus arrives in the Canary Islands on his first voyage to the New World.
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1492 - Pope Alexander VI
Rodrigo de Borja is elected as Head of the Catholic Church, taking the name Pope Alexander VI.
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1942 - Frequency-hopping spread spectrum
Actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil receive a patent for a Frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication system that later became the basis for modern technologies in wireless telephones, two-way radio communications, and Wi-Fi.
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1973 - 1520 Sedgwick Avenue
At the 1520 Sedgwick Avenue apartment building in The Bronx, New York, DJ Kool Herc hosts a house party widely considered to mark the birthplace of hip-hop culture and music. DJ Kool Herc demonstrates a new technique of beat juggling and Coke La Rock performs a new style of vocal
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1990 - Magellan (spacecraft)
The Magellan space probe reaches Venus.
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1628 - Vasa (ship)
The Swedish warship Vasa sinks on her maiden voyage off Stockholm.
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1519 - Ferdinand Magellan
Ferdinand Magellan's five ships set sail from Seville to circumnavigate the globe. The Basque second-in-command Juan Sebastián Elcano will complete the expedition after Magellan's death in the Philippines.