Interesting facts from history of today

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• 1611 Shakespeare's romantic comedy "Tempest" first presented.
• 1755 Lisbon earthquake kills more than 50,000 in Portugal.
• 1765 Stamp Act goes into effect in British colonies.
• 1814 Congress of Vienna opens to re-draw the European political map after the defeat of France, in the Napoleonic Wars.
• 1834 First published reference to poker (as Mississippi riverboat game)
• 1867 "Harper's Bazaar" publishes.
• 1894 Vaccine for diphtheria announced by Dr Roux of Paris.
• 1911 First bomb dropped from an aircraft, Prior to this, bombs were dropped using unmanned balloons. The first bomb launched from an aircraft was used by the Italians in the Italo-Turkish War.

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• 1928 Bradman scores a century each innings (131 & 133*), NSW v Qld
• 1931 Dupont introduces synthetic rubber.
• 1952 First large hydrogen bomb tested by the U.S. The bomb, codenamed Mike, was part of Operation Ivy and was tested in the Eniwetok atoll in the Marshall Islands.
• 1956 Formation of Kerala state in India.
• 1957 Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A. opens in Hollywood.

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• 1967 "Cool Hand Luke", starring Paul Newman, George Kennedy, and Strother Martin, is released.
• 1968 Motion Picture Association of America introduces rating system (G, M, R, X).
• 1973 The Indian state of Mysore was renamed as Karnataka to represent all the regions within Karunadu .
• 2012 Google's Gmail becomes the world's most popular email service.
• 2012 Scientists detect evidence of light from the universe's first stars, predicted to have formed 500 million years after the big bang.