Millennium Force is a steel roller coaster at Cedar Point amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio, United States. Completed in 2000, it has broken and helped to break ten world records. It was also the first Giga Coaster (any complete circuit roller coaster that exceeds 300 feet (91 m) in height) in the world. It was briefly the tallest and fastest complete circuit roller coaster in the world, before being surpassed by Steel Dragon 2000 in August 2000. The ride is also the second-longest roller coaster in North America after The Beast at Kings Island, and was the first roller coaster to use a cable lift system, rather than a traditional chain lift. The coaster has a 310 ft (94 m), 45 degree inclined lift hill with a 300 ft (91 m) drop, and features two tunnels, three overbanked turns, and four hills. It has a top speed of about 93 mph (150 km/h). Since 2001, Millennium Force has been voted the number one steel roller coaster in the world eight times in Amusement Today's Golden Ticket Awards, and has never been ranked lower than number two. Although it is no longer the tallest or fastest roller coaster at Cedar Point, it is still one of the tallest and fastest in the world.

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1638:

Construction began in Delhi on the Red Fort (Lahori Gate pictured), the residence of the Mughal emperors, now an iconic symbol of India. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Fort

1779:

Russian and French mediators negotiated the Treaty of Teschen to end the War of the Bavarian Succession. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Bavarian_Succession

1913:

Russian American Igor Sikorsky flew the world's first multi- engine fixed-wing aircraft, the Russky Vityaz, which he designed himself. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Sikorsky

1948:

Fifteen Jewish residents of Kibbutz Kfar Etzion were massacred following their surrender after a two-day battle with the Arab Legion and Arab settlers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kfar_Etzion_massacre

1985:

Eleven members of the American black liberation group MOVE were killed when a Philadelphia police helicopter dropped a bomb on their house during a raid. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOVE

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