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- 1258 Baghdad, then a city of 1 million, falls to the Mongols as the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed, tens of thousands slaughtered, ending the Islamic Golden Age
- 1601 Fleet of five British East India Company vessels departs on their 1st voyage from London, led by Sir James John Lancaster commanding the "Red Dragon"; journey takes nearly 16 months
- 1689 Parliament of England adopts the Bill of Rights which establishes the rights of parliament and places limits on the crown
- 1942 Operation Sealion, Nazi Germany’s invasion of England, is cancelled by Adolf Hitler
- 1945 Allied planes begin bombing the German city of Dresden, resulting in a devastating firestorm that destroys the city and kills over 22,000 people
- 1945 Soviet forces capture Budapest after a 49-day battle with Nazi Germany that killed 159,000 people
- 1960 France becomes the 4th nuclear nation by exploding their 1st device, a 70 kilo-ton "Gerboise Bleue" atomic bomb in the French Algerian Sahara desert [1]
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- 1996 Death Row/Interscope Records releases rapper Tupac Shakur his 4th studio album "All Eyez on Me"; becomes his final release during his lifetime
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- 1920 Baseball Hall of Famer “Rube” Foster and 7 other team owners create the first Negro National League (NNL) at a meeting in a Kansas City YMCA
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Jesse James holds up his first bank, stealing $15,000 from the Clay County Savings Association in Liberty, Missouri
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Pink Floyd's album "Dark Side of the Moon" marks 402 weeks on Billboard Top 200 Album charts
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Update: 2024-09-05