These are some of the notable events to have happened on this date throughout history.
1783, General George Washington gave his "Farewell Address to the Army".
1889, North and South Dakota were admitted as the 39th and 40th states.
1903, The Daily Mirror was first published in Britain, devised as a daily paper for women.
1914, Russia declared war on the Ottoman Empire.
1920, KDKA in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania became the world's first regular broadcasting station.
1930, Ras Tafari was crowned Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia.
1936, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini proclaimed the Rome-Berlin Axis, which established the alliance of the Axis Powers.
1947, Howard Hughes performed the maiden (and only) flight of the Spruce Goose, the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built.
1950, Irish dramatist and critic George Bernard Shaw died at age 94.
1963, Archaeologists in America found evidence of the Vikings dating 500 years before Spanish explorer Columbus arrived.
1976, Georgian peanut farmer Jimmy Carter was elected as the 38th President of the United States.
1983, President Ronald Reagan signed a bill creating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
2000, The first crew arrives at the International Space Station.
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