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- 1903
Joe Pulitzer donates $1 million to Columbia University, beginning the Pulitzer Prizes in America View Post →
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- 1790
The capital of the U.S. moves to Philadelphia from New York City
- 1859
A hot air balloon is used to carry mail for the first time, when John Wise travels from Lafayette, IN to New York City with 100 letters
- 1969
Hurricane Camille strikes the U.S. coastline, killing 259 people mainly in Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana
- 1976
An earthquake and tsunami in the Philippines kills up to 8,000
- 1979
Two Russian passenger planes collide above Ukraine, killing 173
- 1999
A 7.4-magnitude earthquake strikes İzmit, Turkey, killing more than 17,000 and injuring 44,000
- 2017
The collision of two neutron stars is witnessed for the first time, detected by the U.S.-based Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO)
