1509: Emperor Krishnadeva Raya is crowned, marking the beginning of the regeneration of the Vijayanagara Empire in Southern India
1609: Venetian senate examines Galileo Galilei’s telescope
1786: US Congress unanimously chooses the dollar as the monetary unit for the United States of America
1945: USSR establishes a communist government in North Korea
1974: US President Richard Nixon announces he will resign at 12pm the next day
1988: Ceasefire between Iran and Iraq takes effect after 8 years of war
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