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2018 - Supreme Court of India
Supreme Court of India decriminalises all consensual sex among adults in private, making homosexuality legal on the Indian lands.
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1914 - First Battle of the Marne
World War I: The First Battle of the Marne, which would halt the Imperial German Army's advance into France, begins.
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1522 - Ferdinand Magellan
The Victoria returns to Sanlúcar de Barrameda in Spain, the only surviving ship of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition and the first known ship to circumnavigate the world.
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1977 - NASA
Voyager Program: NASA launches the Voyager 1 spacecraft.
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1945 - Cold War
Cold War: Igor Gouzenko, a Soviet Union embassy clerk, defects to Canada, exposing Soviet espionage in North America, signalling the beginning of the Cold War.
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1791 - Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen
Olympe de Gouges writes the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen.
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1998 - Google
Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two PhD students at Stanford University.
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1781 - Pueblo de Los Ángeles
Los Angeles is founded as El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora La Reina de los Ángeles (The Village of Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels) by 44 Spanish settlers.
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476 - Romulus Augustulus
Romulus Augustulus is deposed when Odoacer proclaims himself "King of Italy", thus ending the Western Roman Empire.
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1976 - Mars
Viking program: The American Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars.
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1939 - World War II
World War II: France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia declare war on Germany after the invasion of Poland, forming the Allied nations. The Viceroy of India also declares war, but without consulting the provincial legislatures.
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1260 - Battle of Ain Jalut
The Mamluks defeat the Mongols at the Battle of Ain Jalut in Palestine, marking their first decisive defeat and the point of maximum expansion of the Mongol Empire.