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Today in History

• 1952 The jet age begins with the first scheduled flight of the De Havilland Comet 1

  Precisely one year after the maiden flight from London to Johannesburg, a Comet 1 crashed due to str

• 1982 The British Royal Navy sinks the Argentinian cruiser General Belgrano

  323 lives were lost in the attack, more than half of the total number of Argentinian casualties duri

• 1989 The Iron Curtain begins to crumble as Hungary dismantles its border fence

  By gradually opening its border to Austria, Hungary facilitated the escape of hundreds of East Germa

• 1997 Tony Blair becomes British Prime Minister, ending 18 years of Conservative Party reign

  Blair's Labor Party achieved a landslide victory in the general elections. Many of his early fans we

• 2011 Osama bin Laden is killed by a U.S. commando

  Bin Laden was the founder of al-Qaeda, a militant group that claimed responsibility for a series of