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2020

SpaceX’s Dragon capsule carrying NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico, marking the first commercial crewed mission.

2019

Singer Ed Sheeran’s “Divide” tour becomes the most popular and highest-grossing tour in music history. The English singer spent 893 days on tour.

2018

Apple becomes the first U.S. company to reach a market capitalization of one billion U.S. dollars.

2017

The cryptocurrency Bitcoin is created.

2008

The novel Breaking Dawn, the fourth book in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series, is published.

1990

Iraq invades Kuwait, leading to the Gulf War.

1961

The Beatles play their first show as a band at the Cavern Club in Liverpool.

1939

Albert Einstein writes to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, asking him to accelerate the Manhattan Project, which aims to develop the atomic bomb.

1934

Adolf Hitler becomes commander-in-chief of the German armed forces.

1918

The first general strike in Canadian history breaks out in Vancouver. The 24-hour strike is held in memory of Albert Goodwin, a union leader who had died a few days earlier.

1892

Charles A. Wheeler invents the escalator.

1870

The very first subway system opens in London: the Tower Subway.

It happened on… August 2

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