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On this date in history:

In 1507, German geographer and mapmaker Martin Waldseemuller published a book in which he named the newly discovered continent of the New World America after the man he mistakenly thought had discovered it, Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci.

In 1792, La Marseillaise, composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, became the French national anthem.

In 1859, ground was broken for the Suez Canal at Port Said, Egypt.

In 1862, Union forces captured New Orleans during the Civil War.

In 1901, New York became the first state to require license plates on automobiles.

In 1915, the Battle of Gallipoli began when Allied troops launched an invasion of the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula, landing at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles. The conflict lasted 8 months, 2 weeks and 1 day, and ended in a Ottoman victory.

In 1945, delegates of 46 countries gathered in San Francisco to organize a permanent United Nations.

In 1967, the first law legalizing abortion in the United States was signed into law by Colorado Gov. John Arthur Love.

In 1982, Israel turned over the final third of the occupied Sinai Peninsula to Egypt under the Camp David peace agreement.

In 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope was released into space by astronauts on the space shuttle Discovery.

In 1991, the United States announced its first financial aid to Hanoi since the 1960s: $1 million to make artificial limbs for Vietnamese disabled during the war.

In 1993, an estimated 300,000 people took part in a gay rights march on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

In 1995, regular-season play by Major League Baseball teams got underway, the first official action since what was then the longest strike in sports history began in August 1994.

In 2000, Vermont approved a measure legalizing civil unions among same-sex couples, becoming the first U.S. state to give homosexual couples the same legal status as heterosexual married couples.

In 2005, the crash of a commuter train near Osaka, Japan, killed more than 70 people and injured about 300 others.

In 2009, Bea Arthur, who went from high-profile supporting roles on Broadway to stardom in groundbreaking TV sitcoms Maude and The Golden Girls, died in Los Angeles. She was 86.

In 2011, nearly 800 classified U.S. military documents released by WikiLeaks revealed details about the alleged terrorist activities of al-Qaida operatives held at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.

In 2012, Gov. Daniel P. Malloy, saying the system of justice is very imperfect, signed a bill making the death penalty illegal in Connecticut.

In 2013, the George W. Bush Presidential Library was dedicated on the Southern Methodist University campus.

In 2014, in a World Malaria Day message, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the global mortality rate from the disease had been reduced by more than 40 percent since 2000 but it still kills a half-million people each year, most of them small children, under 5 years old, living in sub-Saharan Africa.

In 2015, riots broke out in Baltimore following the death of Freddie Gray, a 25-year old black man, while in police custody.

 


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