Today in world history [2024-01-22]

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DateEvents
1771Spain ceded the Falkland Islands to Britain.
1889Columbia Phonograph Music Company was founded in Washington, D.C.
1939Attempts to split the uranium atom at Columbia University were successful.
1952The world's first jet passenger aircraft started to serve in the fleet of BOAC airline.
1970Boeing 747 made its first flight to London.
1980Nuclear physicist Dr. Andrei Sakharov was sent into internal exile in the USSR.
1984Apple Macintosh, the first commercial computer with a user-friendly graphical interface that made the computer popular with users, was released.
2007The winner of the Golden Spider 2006 "Best Content" award was Wikipedia.
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