1829 – Charles Fremantle arrives in HMS Challenger off the coast of modern-day Western Australia prior to declaring the Swan River Colony for the United Kingdom
1875 – Latest date for measurable snow in NYC (3″)
1901 – Erve Beck hits American League’s 1st home run
1950 – Chuck Cooper becomes the 1st African American to be drafted into the NBA (for Boston Celtics)
1982 – USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
1984 – USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
2012 – The United Kingdom dips back into recession after the economy shrank 0.2% in the first quarter of 2012
2018 – Danish inventor Peter Madsen found guilty of killing and desecrating body of journalist Kim Wall aboard submarine, sentenced to life imprisonment
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