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Revision as of 22:00, 16 July 2024
1698
- Thomas Savery patents the first steam engine.
1776
- The Continental Congress severs ties with the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1778
- Death of liberal theorist Jean-Jacques-Rousseau.
1881
- U.S. President James A. Garfield is shot and fatally wounded by Charles J. Guiteau.
1925
- Birth of Congolese independence leader Patrice Lumumba.
1966
- France tests its first nuclear weapon on the occupied Moruroa atoll.
1976
- North Vietnam ends US occupation of Vietnam and reunifyíes with the South.
1989
- Andrei Gromyko, Soviet minister of foreign affairs, dies at the age of 79.