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On This Day

10 events
1992
A Bosnian-Serb wedding procession was attacked in Sarajevo, resulting in what is widely considered the first casualty of the Bosnian War.
1973
Pink Floyd's critically acclaimed album The Dark Side of the Moon was released.
1950
In a trial lasting less than 90 minutes, German–British physicist Klaus Fuchs was convicted of violating the Official Secrets Act by supplying information from the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union.
1944
World War II: American and Australian troops won the Battle of Sio against Japanese forces as part of the New Guinea campaign.
1936
Hoover Dam, straddling the Arizona–Nevada border on the Colorado River, was completed.
1921
The Kronstadt rebellion began following mass protests in Petrograd demanding greater freedom in Russia with sailors and citizens taking up arms against the Bolsheviks.
1921
The Australian cricket team, led by Warwick Armstrong, became the first team to complete a whitewash in the Ashes, an achievement that would not be repeated for 86 years.
1896
Ethiopia defeated Italy at the Battle of Adwa, ending the First Italo-Ethiopian War.
1896
French physicist Henri Becquerel discovered the principle of radioactive decay when he exposed photographic plates to uranium salts.
1872
Yellowstone National Park (bison pictured), located mostly in the present-day U.S. state of Wyoming, was established by President Ulysses S. Grant.

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