1778 - The first savings bank opens in Hamburg, Germany.
1798 - Nelson attacks and annihilates the French fleet at Aboukir Bay, cutting off Napoleon's supply route to his army in Egypt.
1914 - Germany declares war on Russia
1969 - The first pictures of the planet Mars are beamed back to earth by the US Mariner 6 unmanned spacecraft.
1985 - America agrees to sanctions against South Africa in protest against apartheid and in response to violent race riots.
2005 - US astronomers claim to have discovered a 10th planet in the solar system.
2000 - 30 Amarnath pilgrims are massacred by kashmiri separatist militants in Pahalgam, Kashmir, India.
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