1800 – President John Adams approved legislation to establish the Library of Congress.
1898 – Spain declared war on the United States. The U.S. responded in kind the next day.
1904 – Painter Willem de Koonig was born in Rotterdam, Holland.
1915 – What’s regarded as the start of the Armenian genocide began as the Ottoman Empire rounded up Armenian political and cultural leaders in Constantinople. It’s estimated between 1 million and 2 million ultimately died in the conflict that ended 8 years later.
1945 – Less than 2 weeks after ascending to the presidency, Harry S. Truman learned the full details of the Manhattan Project, a scientific effort to create the world’s first atomic bomb.
1962 – The Massachusetts Institute of Technology achieved the first satellite relay of a television signal, using NASA’s Echo 1 balloon satellite to bounce a video image of the letters “M.I.T.” transmitted from Camp Parks, CA, to Westford, MA.
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