CoM Moderators Posted 13 hours ago Posted 13 hours ago 1848 - Statue of prince William the Silent, Prince of Orange by Lodewyk Royer unveiled in The Hague's Het Plein 1976 - 108th Belmont Stakes: Puerto Rican jockey Ángel Cordero Jr., riding Bold Forbes wins his only Belmont classic 1988 - Longest champagne cork flight is 177 feet 9 inches in New York 1993 - Somali warlord Mohamed Farrah murders 23 UN peacekeepers from Pakistan 2000 - Armed conflict between Rwanda and Uganda erupts in Kinsangani, a city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo 2001 - Tropical Storm Allison makes landfall on the upper Texas coastline as a strong tropical storm and dumps large amounts of rain over Houston, causing $5.5 billion in damages, the then costliest tropical storm in US history 2003 - A severe heat wave across Pakistan and India reaches its peak, as temperatures exceed 50°C (122°F) in the region 2024 - World's only surviving wild horse, the Przewalski's Horse, is returned to the Golden Steppe of Kazakhstan for the first time in over 200 years More Historical Events »
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