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★30 May 1899
Pearl Hart, one of the few female outlaws of the American Old West, committed one of the last recorded stagecoach robberies 30 miles southeast of Globe, Arizona.

★28 Aug 1914
In the first naval battle of the First World War, British ships ambushed a German naval patrol in the Heligoland Bight area of the North Sea.

★22 Oct 1924
The educational non-profit organization Toastmasters International was founded at a YMCA in Santa Ana, California.

★02 Oct 1925
Scottish inventor John Logie Baird successfully transmitted the first television picture with a greyscale image.

★04 Feb 1945
World War II: U.S. Army forces liberated the Santo Tomas Internment Camp in Manila, the largest of the Japanese internment camps in the Philippines.

★11 Mar 1946
Rudolf Höss, the first commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, was captured by British troops.

★12 Aug 1950
Korean War: Members of the North Korean People's Army executed 75 captured U.S. Army prisoners of war.

★11 Oct 1950
A field-sequential color system developed by Hungarian-American engineer Peter Goldmark became the first color television system to be adopted for commercial use, only for it to be abandoned a year later.

★03 Oct 1952
The United Kingdom successfully completed a nuclear test to become the world's third nuclear power.

★18 Dec 1958
The United States launched SCORE, the world's first communications satellite.

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