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Solar storm slams Earth; auroras blaze over Florida, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico

AR3664's X-class flares trigger the worst geomagnetic storm in 21 years, knocking a weather satellite offline and forcing hundreds of low-orbit satellites to maneuver at once.

Starting May 10, 2024, a solar active region designated AR3664 unleashed a cascade of X-class flares and coronal mass ejections that drove a G5-class geomagnetic storm — the most intense since the 2003 Halloween storms and the most powerful to affect Earth since March 1989. The storm, named after space physicist Jennifer Gannon, pushed auroras to the Florida Keys, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and as far south as Algeria and northern India. It also knocked out a major American weather satellite for nearly two hours and forced roughly half of all low-Earth-orbit satellites to execute the largest coordinated orbital maneuver ever recorded…

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1858

Minnesota enters the Union as the 32nd state; the Dakota name, the French motto, the New England soul

Nine years after Ramsey stepped off a riverboat to govern 5,000 settlers, the eastern half of the old territory takes its place on the map.
1910

Taft signs Glacier into law; a million Montana acres become a national park

George Bird Grinnell, who first rode into the region in 1885 and spent two decades lobbying Congress, calls it "the Crown of the Continent."
1889

Gunmen behind a boulder hit Wham's paymaster convoy; eight Buffalo Soldiers wounded, $28,345 gone

A dozen riflemen firing from pre-built breastworks above an Arizona gorge stripped the Army payroll; Frankie Campbell's horse was still picking around the obstacle when the ambush opened.
19631776 Club
Two blasts hours after the truce agreement; 2,500 fill the streets, businesses burn, and Washington moves toward its first modern military deployment for domestic unrest.
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1998

Clinton tells grand jury of "improper" ties to Lewinsky, then tells the country he misled them

Seven months after denying it on camera, the president reverses himself twice in one day.
1998

Thirteen Tomahawks hit a Khartoum medicine factory; Washington says it made nerve gas

The strike came thirteen days after the embassy bombings in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, and the target was a plant that made most of Sudan's antibiotics.
2020

Biden accepts the nomination alone in a Delaware ballroom, no crowd, no roar

A pandemic convention ends with the nominee speaking to a camera instead of a stadium.
1994

Thirty-three years after his death, the Air Force finally makes Eugene Bullard an officer

France called him a hero and gave him a pilot's license in 1917; his own country waited until 1994 to make it official.
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