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(Public) On This Day (by Bruce)
Events and birthdays around the world on this day

In 295 8th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
In 1314 Clement V pope (1305-14) who moved papacy to Avignon, dies.
In 1770 Capt Cook arrives in New South Wales.
In 1792 France declares war on Austria, Prussia and Sardinia
In 1809 Napoleon I defeats Austria at Battle of Abensberg, Bavaria
In 1841 1st detective story, Poe's Murders in the Rue Morgue, published.
In 1879 The first "mobile home" (horse drawn) is used for a journey between London and Cyprus.
In 1889 Adolf Hitler (in Braunau, Austria), dictator of Nazi Germany, born.
In 1902 Marie and Pierre Curie isolated the radioactive element radium.
In 1906 Australian wombat dies in London Zoo at 26; oldest known marsupial.
In 1910 Halley's Comet passes 29th recorded perihelion at 87.9 million km.
In 1919 Polish Army captures Vilno, Lithuania from Soviet Army.
In 1920 7th modern Olympic games opens in Antwerp.
In 1938 Betty Cuthbert Australia 100m/200m/400m dash (Olympic-gold-1956, 64), born.
In 1941 Ryan O'Neal, actor, born.
In 1943 In Poland, Germans Nazi troops massacred the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.
In 1945 Soviet troops enter Berlin.
In 1945 US 7th army captured German city of Nuremberg.
In 1949 Jessica Lange Cloquet Minnesota, actress (King Kong, Tootsie), born.
In 1962 NASA civilian pilot Neil A Armstrong takes X-15 to 63,250m.
In 1974 Agnes Moorehead actress (Endora-Bewitched), dies at 67.
In 1974 Paul McCartney releases Band on the Run.
In 1976 George Harrison sings the Lumberjack Song with Monty Python.
In 2005 Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany elected pope. Chooses the name Pope Benedict XVI.