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2020

The first documented case of a person reinfected with COVID-19 is reported. The patient is a man from Hong Kong who had contracted the disease four months earlier.

2015

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announces that his social network has one billion users worldwide.

2011

Steve Jobs resigns as CEO of Apple Inc. due to illness and is replaced by Tim Cook.

2001

Air Transat Flight 236 runs out of fuel over the Atlantic Ocean. Pilot Robert Piché successfully performs an emergency landing in the Azores.

1995

Microsoft launches Windows 95.

1992

Hurricane Andrew strikes South Florida. It claims 44 lives and causes $25 billion in damage.

1991

Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the Communist Party of the USSR.

1989

Pete Rose, manager of the Cincinnati Reds, is banned from baseball for life for betting on baseball games.

1981

Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years in prison for the murder of John Lennon.

1949

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) comes into effect.

1909

Workers begin digging the Panama Canal.

1891

Thomas Edison invents motion picture film.

1869

Cornelius Swarthout invents the first waffle iron.

1853

The first potato chips were invented by chef George Crum at Moon’s Lake House, near Saratoga Springs, New York.

1456

The printed version of the Gutenberg Bible is completed.

0079

Mount Vesuvius erupts, killing more than 20,000 people and wiping the cities of Pompeii, Stabiae, and Herculaneum off the map.

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