1783 - General George Washington, later 1st US President, bids farewell to his army after the American Revolutionary War.
1914 - Great Britain declares the entire North Sea a military area: neutral ships will transit it at their own risk.
1943 - Jewish ghetto of Riga Latvia is destroyed.
1944 - Auschwitz begins gassing inmates.
1960 - Mary Leakey and her team discover the first fossils of Homo habilis, an early human ancestor, at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Homo habilis is thought to be one of the earliest species to make stone tools and lived between 1.4 and 2.3 million years ago.
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Oh my God, not again!!
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