This Week In History
Let’s learn about our past!
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1492 – Christopher Columbus set sail from Palos, Spain, aboard Niña, Pinta, and Santa María, beginning his first voyage to the Americas
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1784 – Russian settlement begins on Kodiak Island, Alaska
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1962 – Nelson Mandela is arrested by South African authorities, beginning his 27-year imprisonment
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1945 – U.S. drops the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, killing more than 70,000 people and devastating the city
1942 – U.S. Marines land on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands, beginning a major Pacific campaign
1867 – ASEAN is founded by Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand
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1945 – U.S. drops the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, approximately 74,000 people killed; Japan begins surrender negotiations