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Benazir Bhutto, elected prime minister of Pakistan #OnThisDay in 1988, became the first woman in modern history to lead a Muslim country, serving as prime minister from 1988 to 1990 and again from 1993 to 1996. 📷Reuters/Alamy
Photo of Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto May 9, 1994.
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#OnThisDay in 1871, according to his journal, explorer Henry Stanley greeted David Livingstone, the fellow explorer in search of the source of the Nile River, with the famous words “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?” 📷Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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American politician Nellie Tayloe Ross became the first woman to be elected governor of a U.S. state (Wyoming) #OnThisDay in 1924. 📷Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; neg. no. LC USZ62 7943
Black & white photo of Governor Nellie Tayloe Ross enroute to her inauguration, 1925 March 2.
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Announced #OnThisDay in 1998 was the discovery in the Hui Autonomous Region of Ningxia of a previously unknown 15.5-mile (25-km) segment of the Great Wall of China, which runs a total of about 4,500 miles (7,300 km). 📷© Zachary Martin/Dreamstime.com
Landscape view of the Mutainyu section of the Great Wall of China, north of Beijing, China.
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A computer science student named Robert Morris released the first computer worm onto the Internet #OnThisDay in 1988; meant as an experiment, it brought some 6,000 computers (one-tenth of the Internet at the time) to a halt. 📷© Ocean/Corbis RF
Computer monitor with the "internet" on the screen; worldwide web.
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Just five days after nearly 13 million shares of U.S. stock were sold in one day in 1929; an additional 16 million shares were sold #OnThisDay in 1929, called “Black Tuesday,” further fueling the crisis known as the Great Depression. 📷Archive Photos—Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Workers flood the streets in a panic following the Black Tuesday stock market crash on Wall Street, October 29, 1929, New York City.
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#OnThisDay in 1886 U.S. President Grover Cleveland officially dedicated the Statue of Liberty—a gift from the people of France to the people of the United States—on Bedloe's (later Liberty) Island in Upper New York Bay. 📷© Gary/stock.adobe.com
The Statue of Liberty and New York City skyline
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After eight years of construction, the Erie Canal, which connects the Great Lakes with NYC, officially opened #OnThisDay in 1825 when Gov. DeWitt Clinton of NY poured a keg of Lake Erie water into the Atlantic Ocean. 📷NY Public Library Digital Collection (54047)
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#OnThisDay in 1962, President John F. Kennedy alerted Americans to the Cuban missile crisis, declaring a naval blockade to prevent further missile shipments to the island country 90 miles (145 km) off the coast of the U.S. 📷© Everett Collection/Shutterstock.com
Black and white photo of Soviet freighter Anesov, escorted by a United States Navy plane and the destroyer, USS Barry, as it leaves Cuba loaded with missiles signaling the end of Cuban missile crisis, October 1962.
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John Jay, a Founding Father of the United States, was sworn in as the first chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court #OnThisDay in 1789. 📷Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (neg. no. LC-USZ62-17681)
Black and white portrait of John Jay. Illustration created in 1894.
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#OnThisDay in 1970
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In this April 10, 2008 file photo, Big Bird reads to Connor Scott and Tiffany Jiao during a taping of Sesame Street in New York.
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#OnThisDay in 1927 American baseball player Babe Ruth became the first player to hit 60 home runs in a single season; his record stood until Roger Maris hit 61 in 1961. 📷George Grantham Bain Collection/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-DIG-ggbain-36447)
Black and white photo of Babe Ruth at bat, as a member of the New York Yankees, 1923.
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#OnThisDay in 1985 in a search led by American oceanographer Robert Ballard, the wreck of the Titanic was found on the ocean floor at a depth of about 13,000 feet (4,000 meters). 📷© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Jason Jr. underwater vehicle seen from the submersible Alvin, looks at the wreck of the Titanic in the North Atlantic; Exploration
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#OnThisDay in 1983 U.S. astronaut Guion S. Bluford, Jr., became the first African American to travel into space, serving as a mission specialist aboard the shuttle orbiter Challenger, and later flew on three other missions. 📷NASA/Johnson Space Center
Astronaut Guion S. Bluford Jr. poses in his launch and entry suit (LES) holding a launch and entry helmet (LEH), 1992.
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French fashion designer Coco Chanel—who, with her elegantly casual creations, ruled over Parisian haute couture for almost six decades—was born #OnThisDay in 1883. 📷Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Black and white photo of Coco Chanel
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