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In 1613, Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre was burnt down in London. During a performance of the play “Henry Eighth”, the theatre caught fire accidentally.
In 1925, an earthquake took place in San Francisco and Los Angeles causing damage of many millions of dollars.
In 1966, the U.S bombed the fuel storage facilities near the North Vietnamese cities of Hanoi and Haiphong for the first time.
In 1986, the British businessman Richard Branson broke the record for the fastest Atlantic crossing. He crossed the ocean within three days by speedboat.
In 2007, Apple released the first ever iPhone that revolutionized the smartphone industry.
In 2009, American hedge-fund investment manager Bernie Madoff received a sentence of up to 150 years in prison for one of the largest investment fraud crimes in history. He was the man behind operating the largest Ponzi scheme in history.
Birthdays:In 1893, Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, the Indian scientist and applied statistician was born in Calcutta, British India. This day is celebrated annually in India as "National Statistics Day".
Deaths:In 1861, the British poet and writer, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, died at the age of 55.
In 1923. J C Gomez, the first General Vice President of Venezuela was assassinated on this day.
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