1788: US Constitution comes into effect when New Hampshire is the 9th state to ratify it
1854: First Victoria Cross won during bombardment of Bomarsund in the Aland Islands (Crimean War)
1948: Lord Mountbatten resigns as Governor General of India (formerly the last Viceroy)
1990: 7.7 Manjil-Rudbar Earthquake with hundreds of aftershocks hits Iran; killing about 50,000
1993: English mathematician Andrew Wiles proves last theorem of French mathematician Pierre de Fermat after 356 years, the world’s most difficult maths problem
Source: Onthisday.com
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