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2020

First documented case of a person being re-infected with COVID-19 a second time, a Hong Kong man four months after first infection.

2015

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announces that for the 1st time 1 billion people logged into Facebook.

2011

Steve Jobs resigns as CEO of Apple Inc., and is succeeded by Tim Cook, as a result of his illness.

2001

Air Transat Flight 236 runs out of fuel over the Atlantic Ocean (en route to Lisbon from Toronto) and makes an emergency landing in the Azores.

1995

Microsoft debuts Windows 95.

1992

Hurricane Andrew hits South Florida, making landfall at Elliott Key and later Homestead; 44 die and $25 billion in damage is recorded.

1991

Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of USSR Communist Party.

1981

Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 yrs to life for John Lennon’s murder.

1949

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

1909

Workers start pouring concrete for Panama Canal.

1891

Thomas Edison patents motion picture camera.

1869

Cornelius Swarthout patents stove-top waffle iron.

1853

1st potato chips prepared by chef George Crum at Moon’s Lake House, near Saratoga Springs, New York.

1456

The printing of the Gutenberg Bible was completed.

0079

Mount Vesuvius erupted killing approximately 20,000 people. The cities of Pompeii, Stabiae and Herculaneum were buried in volcanic ash.

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