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On-This-Day, In 1880, Helen Keller was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama.
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On-This-Day, In 1967, world's first ATM is installed in Enfield, London.
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On-This-Day, In 1693, 1st women's magazine "The Ladies' Mercury" published (London).
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On-This-Day, In 1929, 1st color TV demo, performed by Bell Laboratories in NYC.
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On-This-Day, In 2008, Usain Bolt breaks the world record in the 100m sprint, with a wind-legal (+1.7 m/s) 9.72 seconds.
#May31 #BOLT

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On-This-Day, In 1935, A 7.7 Mw  earthquake destroys Quetta in modern-day Pakistan killing 40,000.
#May31 #Quetta

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On-This-Day, In 1814 Eugène Charles Catalan, French-Belgian mathematician (worked on continued fractions, descriptive geometry, number theory and combinatorics), born in Bruges, Belgium.
#May30 #Mathematics

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On-This-Day, In 2019 Narendra Modi sworn in for a second term as Indian Prime Minister in New Delhi with 8,000 guests at largest-ever gathering at the Presidential Palace.
#May30 #Modi

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On-This-Day, In 1982 Spain became 16th member of NATO.
#May30 #NATO #Spain

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On-This-Day, In 1959 Iraq withdraws from the Baghdad Pact (Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Turkey, and the United Kingdom).
#May30 #BaghdadPact

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On-This-Day, In 1975 European Space Agency (ESA) formed.
#May30 #ESA

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On-This-Day, In 1806 Future US President Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson in a duel after Dickinson accused Jackson's wife of bigamy.
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On-This-Day, In 1431 19 year old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake by an English-dominated tribunal in Rouen, France.
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On-This-Day, In 1892, Bahá'u'lláh, the Persian religious leader who founded the Bahá'í Faith was died in Acre, Ottoman empire ( Present day Israel).
#May29 #Bahaullah

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On-This-Day, In 1453,  Constantine XI Palaiologos, the last Byzantine emperor was died in the Battle of Constantinople marking the end of Byzantine empire.
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On-This-Day, In 1453, Ulubatli Hasan,the legendary turk martyr, who was the first to climb the walls of Constantinople and placed the ottoman flag was died in the battle.
#May29 #fetih1453

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On-This-Day, In 1914, Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese-Indian mountaineer and first person to summit Mount Everest was born in Khumbu, Nepal.
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On-This-Day, In 1917, John.F.Kennedy the 35th president of USA was born in Brookline, Massachusetts.
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On-This-Day, In 1953,Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
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On-This-Day, In 1919,Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity is tested by Arthur Eddington and Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin.
#May29 #TheoryofGeneralRelativity