Historical Events for 20th August 2024

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1534 - Turkish admiral Chaireddin "Barbarossa" occupies Tunis
1619 - Slavery begins in America: 1st known African Americans (approx. 20) land at Point Comfort (Fort Monroe), Virginia before being sold or traded into servitude
1648 - Battle of Lens: French Duc d'Enghien defeats Spaniards
1795 - Joseph Haydn returns to Vienna from England
1913 - 1st pilot to parachute from an aircraft (Adolphe Pégoud, France)
1962 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1974 - Nelson Rockefeller is selected as US Vice President by President Gerald Ford
1980 - UN Security Council condemns (14-0, US abstains) Israeli declaration that all of Jerusalem is its capital
1998 - The Supreme Court of Canada rules that Quebec cannot legally secede from Canada without the federal government's approval.
2018 - Polish immigrant and former volunteer Nazi guard Jakiw Palij (95) is deported from the US in New York to Germany

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19 hours ago, CoM Moderators said:

1534 - Turkish admiral Chaireddin "Barbarossa" occupies Tunis
1619 - Slavery begins in America: 1st known African Americans (approx. 20) land at Point Comfort (Fort Monroe), Virginia before being sold or traded into servitude
1648 - Battle of Lens: French Duc d'Enghien defeats Spaniards
1795 - Joseph Haydn returns to Vienna from England
1913 - 1st pilot to parachute from an aircraft (Adolphe Pégoud, France)
1962 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1974 - Nelson Rockefeller is selected as US Vice President by President Gerald Ford
1980 - UN Security Council condemns (14-0, US abstains) Israeli declaration that all of Jerusalem is its capital
1998 - The Supreme Court of Canada rules that Quebec cannot legally secede from Canada without the federal government's approval.
2018 - Polish immigrant and former volunteer Nazi guard Jakiw Palij (95) is deported from the US in New York to Germany

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That was the greatest decision ever made by our Supreme Court. After that the separatist movement shrivelled up and died.