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On this day in history:

1576
The death of Titian. Titian, the greatest Italian Renaissance painter of the Venetian school, who was once described as “the sun amidst small stars not only among the Italians but all the painters of the world,” died this day in 1576.

1776
During the American Revolution, British forces under General William Howe defeated George Washington and the American Continental Army in the Battle of Long Island.

1859
Edwin Laurentine Drake struck oil while drilling in Titusville, Pennsylvania, becoming the first driller of a productive oil well in the United States.

1916
Italy declares war on Germany.

1928
The Kellogg-Briand Pact was signed between France and the United States in a series of peacekeeping efforts after World War I.

1939
German Ernst Heinrich Heinkel's He 178, a turbojet-powered aircraft, made the first jet flight.

1962
NASA Launches Mariner 2. Part of NASA’s Mariner program, the unmanned space probe was the first man-made object to flyby another planet – it encountered Venus on December 14, 1962. The space probe made its last contact with scientists on Earth on January 3, 1963.

1964
The musical film Mary Poppins, an adaptation of P.L. Travers's book, had its world premiere in Los Angeles, and it became a Disney classic, especially noted for the performance of Julie Andrews, who was making her screen debut.

1976
Transgender athlete Renée Richards barred from U.S. Open. The United States Tennis Association bars transgender athlete Renée Richards from competing in the U.S. Open as a woman, stating she must pass a chromosomal test. Richards fails the test, sues the USTA and wins the right a year later to compete via a New York Supreme Court ruling.

1979
Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, was assassinated by members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, who placed on a bomb on his boat, which was in Donegal Bay, Ireland.

1984
President Ronald Reagan announces NASA Teacher in Space project, intended to inspire students and honor teachers and spur interest in the fields of science, mathematics and space exploration.

1991
Moldova gains its Independence. The Eastern European country was part of the Soviet Union since August 2, 1940, from parts of Romania and parts of the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. In 1991, after the dissolution of the USSR, the country gained its independence.

1993
The Rainbow Bridge, a 1,870-foot suspension bridge over Tokyo Bay, completed.

2003
Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing within 34,646,418 miles.

2003
World’s Biggest Battery is Plugged in. The battery, which takes up about 2,000 square metres of space and weighs about 1,300 tonnes is set up to provide emergency electricity to the residents of Fairbanks in Alaska, for about 7 minutes.

2007
NFL star Michael Vick pleads guilty in dogfighting case.

2008
Democratic politician Barack Obama became the first African American to be nominated for the presidency by either major party; he later defeated Republican John McCain to win the office.

2011
After causing extensive damage to various Caribbean islands, Hurricane Irene made landfall in the United States, striking North Carolina's Outer Banks before moving along the Eastern Seaboard; property damage in the United States exceeded $7 billion, making Irene one of the most expensive Atlantic hurricanes in the country's history.

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