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On This Day…
1604: Supernova 1604, the most recent supernova to be observed in the Milky Way.
1636: Generators at the Boulder Dam (later renamed to Hoover Dam) began to generate electricity from the Colorado River and transmit it 266 miles to Los Angeles, California.
1937: Brian Blessed, English Actor was born.
1940: World War II: During a night-time air raid by the German Luftwaffe, St Paul’s Cathedral was hit by a bomb.
1940: John Lennon, The Beatles, was born (d. 1980).
1944: John Entwistle, The Who, was born (d. 2002).
1967: Che Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia.
1981: Capital punishment is abolished in France.
1989: An official news agency reports the landing of a UFO in the Voronezh, Soviet Union.
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