February 19, 2025

This Day in History

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Shimla, Sept. 10 Keekli Bureau

This Day in History

2008

The Large Hadron Collider, the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, conducted its first test operation.

2000

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical Cats closed after 7,485 performances; it was the longest-running show on Broadway until it was surpassed by Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera in 2006.

1993

The TV series The X-Files, starring David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, debuted on Fox, and it developed a huge cult following.

1988

By winning the U.S. Open, Steffi Graf completed the Grand Slam of tennis; she was the first woman to accomplish the feat since Margaret Court in 1970.

1974

Guinea-Bissau gained independence from Portugal.

1934

American professional baseball player Roger Maris, who held (1961–98) the record for most home runs (61) in a single season, was born.

1919

Austria and the Allied powers signed the Treaty of Saint-Germain, concluding World War I.

1846

American inventor Elias Howe was granted a patent for his sewing machine, which revolutionized garment manufacture in the factory and in the home.

1721

The Second Northern War (1700–21) was concluded by the Peace of Nystad.

1651

Japanese rebel Yui Shosetsu committed suicide after the failure of his plot against the Tokugawa shogunate.

1419

John the Fearless, second duke of Burgundy, was killed during a meeting with the future king Charles VII at Montereau, France.

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