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1957 â U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond begins a filibuster to prevent the United States Senate from voting on the Civil Rights Act of 1957; he stopped speaking 24 hours and 18 minutes later, the longest filibuster ever conducted by a single Senator.

this record broke this year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
edit: not technically a filibuster (another reason i hate politics)

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1968 â Police and protesters clash during 1968 Democratic National Convention protests as protesters chant "The whole world is watching".

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1963 â March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gives his I Have a Dream speech.

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1955 â Black teenager Emmett Till is lynched in Mississippi for whistling at a white woman, galvanizing the nascent civil rights movement.

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1859 â The Carrington event is the strongest geomagnetic storm on record to strike the Earth. Electrical telegraph service is widely disrupted.

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1956 â The nuclear power station at Calder Hall in the United Kingdom was connected to the national power grid becoming the world's first commercial nuclear power station to generate electricity on an industrial scale.

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1883 â Eruption of Krakatoa: Four enormous explosions almost completely destroy the island of Krakatoa and cause years of climate change.

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Posted: Aug 27, 2025 - 7:33am
1859 â Petroleum is discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania, leading to the world's first commercially successful oil well.

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Posted: Aug 25, 2025 - 8:14am
2012 â Voyager 1 spacecraft enters interstellar space, becoming the first man-made object to do so.

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1991 â Linus Torvalds announces the first version of what will become Linux.

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Posted: Aug 25, 2025 - 8:08am
1914 â World War I: The library of the Catholic University of Leuven is deliberately destroyed by the German Army. Hundreds of thousands of irreplaceable volumes and Gothic and Renaissance manuscripts are lost.

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1609 â Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.

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2016 â Proxima Centauri b, the closest exoplanet to Earth, is discovered by the European Southern Observatory.

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1991 â Ukraine declares itself independent from the Soviet Union.

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1941 â The Holocaust: Adolf Hitler orders the cessation of Nazi Germany's systematic T4 euthanasia program of the mentally ill and the handicapped due to protests, although killings continue for the remainder of the war.

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1991 â The World Wide Web is opened to the public.

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Estimates vary from 800,000 to 3.8M. It appeared the Churchill bust is back in the Oval Orifice.

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2007 â The Texas Rangers defeat the Baltimore Orioles 30â3, the most runs scored by a team in modern Major League Baseball history.

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1989 â Nolan Ryan strikes out Rickey Henderson to become the first Major League Baseball pitcher to record 5,000 strikeouts.

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1957 â The Soviet Union successfully conducts a long-range test flight of the R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile.

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