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On This Day
10 events2000
Hillary Clinton was elected as a US senator from New York, the first time a first lady had been elected to public office.
1996
NASA launched the Mars Global Surveyor from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
1991
Magic Johnson announced his retirement from professional basketball due to HIV infection.
1987
Singapore's first Mass Rapid Transit line opened, with train services running between Yio Chu Kang and Toa Payoh.
1987
Tunisian prime minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali deposed and replaced President Habib Bourguiba by declaring him medically unfit for the duties of the office.
1972
A ship collision with the Sidney Lanier Bridge in the U.S. state of Georgia resulted in a bridge collapse (pictured), which killed ten people.
1949
Oil was discovered in the Caspian Sea off the coast of Azerbaijan, leading to the construction of Neft Daşları, the world's first offshore oil platform.
1934
The first specimens of the tufted jay (pictured) to be scientifically described were collected in Mexico.
1917
World War I: British forces captured Gaza following the retreat of the Ottoman garrison.
1916
In the congressional elections, Jeannette Rankin became the first woman elected to the United States House of Representatives.