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2012 Event - Ceremonies commemorating the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il were held outside the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun mausoleum in Pyongyang; the nation observed three-minutes of silence to honor him

2010 Event - Astronomers discover the new galaxy UDFy-38135539, the most distant object observed from earth

1993 Event - Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday observed in all 50 states for 1st time

1976 Event - 1,774 kg (largest observed) stony meteorite falls in Jilin, China

1964 Event - Underground America Day is 1st observed

1956 Event - Largest observed iceberg, 208 by 60 miles, 1st sighted

1950 Event - Christopher Fry's "Venus Observed," premieres in London

1948 Event - A flash of light is observed in crater Plato on Moon

1947 Event - Largest recorded sunspot (7,000) observed

1946 Event - Largest solar prominence, 300,000 mi/500,000 km, observed

1945 Event - International Women's Day is 1st observed

1933 Event - 112 foot ocean wave observed near Manila

1921 Event - National Hospital Day 1st observed

1916 Event - Native American Day is 1st observed

1908 Event - 1st Mother's Day observed

1901 Event - Memorial Day 1st observed in U.S.

1899 Event - Black Americans observed day of fasting to protest lynchings

1868 Event - Memorial Day 1st observed when 2 women in Columbus Mississippi placed flowers on both Confederate and Union graves

1864 Event - Spectrum of a comet observed for 1st time, by Giovanni Donati

1845 Event - 1st nationally observed uniform election day in US

1724 Event - 1st Easter observed

1631 Event - 1st predicted transit of Venus (Kepler) is observed

1572 Event - Supernova is observed in constellation known as Cassiopeia

1181 Event - Supernova observed by Chinese and Japanese astronomers

1006 Event - Supernova observed by Chinese and Egyptians in constellation Lupus

834 Event - 1st All Hallows Eve (Halloween) observed to honor the saints

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