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1783 - In Paris, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes performed the first flight in a hot air balloon.
1789 - North Carolina became the 12th state of the USA.
1791 - Colonel Napoléon Bonaparte was promoted to the rank of general.
1877 - Edison announced that he had invented the phonograph (sound recording device).
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1905 - Albert Einstein's article titled "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", in which he expressed the relationship between energy and mass with the famous equation E=mc2, was published in the journal "Annalen der Physik".
1919 - The liberation of the city of Mardin.
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1938 - Atatürk's remains were brought to his temporary resting place at the Ethnography Museum with a ceremony.
1955 - The Baghdad Pact was established with the participation of Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, and the United Kingdom.
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1969 - The first ARPANET link was established between processors at the University of California and SRI.
1980 - A fire at a hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, killed 87 people and left more than 650 injured.
1982 - President Kenan Evren thanked the public in Fatsa, where 95% of the voters cast "YES" votes in the 1982 Turkish constitutional referendum.
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1985 - US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev met in Geneva. The summit resulted in a decision to reduce strategic nuclear weapons by 50 percent.
1990 - The Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE) treaty was signed in Paris.
1996 - A propane explosion at a shoe store and the business center where it was located in San Juan, the capital of Puerto Rico, killed 33 people.
1996 - Thousands of people in Zagreb protested to prevent the closure of the opposition radio station, Radio 101.
2002 - At the NATO summit in Prague, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia were invited to join the alliance.
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2002 - In Nigeria, where the Miss World pageant was to be held, about 100 people were killed and around 500 were injured in clashes sparked by an article published in a newspaper about the Prophet Muhammad.
2009 - An explosion at a coal mine in the city of Hegang in China's Heilongjiang province killed 104 people.
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