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[ T O D A Y I N H I S T O R Y ] • 1683, during the Austro-Ottoman War: Battle of Vienna --- several European armies join forces to defeat the Ottoman Empire
• 1857, the SS Central America sinks about 160 miles east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, drowning a total of 426 passengers and crew, including Captain William Lewis Herndon. The ship was carrying 13-15 tons of gold from the San Francisco Gold Rush
• 1919, Adolf Hitler, ym"sh, joins the German Workers Party
• 1933 , Leo Szilard, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction
• 1938, Adolf Hitler, ym"sh, demands autonomy and self-determination for the Germans of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia
• 1940, cave paintings are discovered in Lascaux, France
• 1952, strange occurrences, including a monster sighting, take place in Flatwoods, West Virginia
• 1958, Jack Kilby demonstrates the first integrated circuit, which are used in virtually all electronic equipment today and have revolutionized the world of electronics
• 1959 , premiere of Bonanza, the first regularly scheduled TV program presented in color
• 1960, Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy addressed questions about his Roman Catholic faith, telling a Southern Baptist group, "I do not speak for my church on public matters, and the church does not speak for me."
• 197, practitioners of that "religion of peace" blow up three hijacked airliners in Jordan, continuing to hold the passengers hostage in various undisclosed locations in Amman
• 1984, Dwight Gooden sets the baseball record for strikeouts in a season by a rookie with 246, previously set by Herb Score in 1954. Gooden's 276 strikeouts that season, pitched in 218 innings, set the current record
• 1986, Joseph Cicippio, the acting comptroller at the American University in Beirut, was kidnapped by practitioners of that "religion of peace" (he was released in December 1991)
• 1990, the two German states and the Four Powers sign the Treaty on the Final Settlement With Respect to Germany in Moscow, paving the way for German re-unification
• 1994, Frank Eugene Corder crashes a single-engine Cessna 150 into the White House's south lawn, striking the West wing and killing himself
• 2001, stunned rescue workers continued to search for bodies in the World Trade Center's smoking rubble a day after a terrorist attack that shut down the financial capital, badly damaged the Pentagon and left thousands dead. President George W. Bush, branding the attacks in New York and Washington "acts of war," said "this will be a monumental struggle of good versus evil" and that "good will prevail."
• 2003, the United Nations lifts sanctions against Libya after that country agreed to accept responsibility and recompense the families of victims in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103
• 2006, in a speech in his native Germany, Pope Benedict XVI quoted from an obscure medieval text that characterized some teachings of Islam's founder as "evil and inhuman," unleashing a torrent of rage across the Islamic world (the pontiff later said he sincerely regretted that Muslims were offended). ALSO: Four family members, practitioners of that "religion of peace", were convicted in an Indian court of taking part in 1993 terror bombings in Mumbai that killed 257 people
• 2007, Russia announced the successful test of a non-nuclear bomb that is reportedly as devastating as an atomic weapon
• 2009, thousands of anti-tax protesters gathered at the U.S. Capitol in the largest demonstration since U.S. President Barack Obama took office, final stop for the Tea Party Express on a 30-city rally
• 2010, top bank regulators around the world agreed on new rules to protect the global investment industry, including a tripling of the amount of capital banks hold in reserve
• 2012, North Korea, reported to be in dire need of help from storms and flooding that killed dozens of people, rejected an offer of aid from South Korea
• 2013, Omar Hammami, an American who became one of Somalia's most visible Islamic rebels, was killed by rivals in the al-Qaida-linked extremist group al-Shabab. ALSO: The U.S. space agency NASA announced that Voyager 1, launched 36 years earlier, had crossed a new frontier, becoming the first man-made spacecraft ever to leave the solar system
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