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On this day in 1973, Native American activist Sacheen Littlefeather declined an Academy Award on behalf of Marlon Brando.
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On this day in 1885, Jeanette Pickersgill became the first person to be legally cremated in Britain.
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On this day in 1983, Michael Jackson performed the moonwalk for the first time at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in California.
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On this day in 1972, the Equal Rights Amendment was passed by the U.S. Senate and sent to the states for ratification.
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On this day in 1985, Libby Riddles became the first woman to win the Iditarod Sled Dog Race.
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On this day in 1995, Michael Jordan announced his return to professional basketball by releasing a two-word statement: “I’m back.”
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On this day in 1966, the Scott Paper Company launched a promotion for disposable paper dresses.
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On this day in 1960, the John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park was established as the first underwater nature preserve in the United States.
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On this day in 1863, American folk hero Casey Jones was born in southeastern Missouri.
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On this day in 1877, amateur inventor Chester Greenwood received a patent for his new and improved style of earmuffs.
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On this day in 1868, Prince Alfred of Edinburgh survived an attempt on his life during a visit to Sydney, Australia.
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On this day in 1961, Mattel introduced the Ken doll at the International Toy Fair in New York City.
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On this day in 1917, the U.S. Senate adopted a rule that allowed a two-thirds majority to cut off debate and force a vote.
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On this day in 1955, American comedian Phyllis Diller made her professional debut at the Purple Onion nightclub in San Francisco.
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On this day in 1836, the Mexican army defeated a group of Texas rebels at the Battle of the Alamo.
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On this day in 1963, the Wham-O toy company received a patent for the Hula Hoop.
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On this day in 1952, American writer Ernest Hemingway finished the manuscript for his classic novella “The Old Man and the Sea.”
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On this day in 1983, the Swatch Group released its first collection of watches in Zürich, Switzerland.
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On this day in 1288, according to Scottish legend, Queen Margaret passed a law allowing women to propose marriage to men on Leap Day.
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On this day in 1995, the Denver International Airport officially opened to the public.
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On this day in 1964, the Italian government began accepting proposals for how to save the Leaning Tower of Pisa from collapsing.
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On this day in 1928, legendary musician Antoine "Fats" Domino Jr. was born in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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On this day in 1945, during the Battle of Iwo Jima, six Marines planted the U.S. flag at the summit of Mount Suribachi.
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On this day in 1876, Native American writer and activist Zitkála-Šá was born.
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On this day in 1861, after losing a bet, Edward Payson Weston embarked on a 478-mile walk from Boston to Washington D.C.
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On this day in 1986, the original “Legend of Zelda" video game was released in Japan for the Famicom Disk System.
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On this day in 1939, a crowd of 20,000 Nazi sympathizers staged a rally in Madison Square Garden in New York City.
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On this day in 1953, the State of Georgia created the first literature censorship board in the United States.
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On this day in 1932, Illinois farmer James Markham received the first fruit tree patent for his hybrid peach tree.
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On this day in 1943, the now-famous “We Can Do It!” poster was first displayed in several Westinghouse factories.
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On this day in 1962, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy gave the first televised tour of the White House.
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On this day in 1923, the New York Renaissance basketball team was formed in Harlem.
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On this day in 1994, Edvard Munch's world-famous painting “The Scream" was stolen from the National Gallery in Oslo, Norway.
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On this day in 1895, the first game of volleyball was played at the YMCA in Holyoke, Massachusetts.
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On this day in 1968, white state troopers shot and killed three unarmed Black students on a college campus in Orangeburg, South Carolina.
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On this day in 1976, “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" by Paul Simon claimed the top spot on the U.S. singles chart.
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On this day in 1938, three massive waves created chaos on Australia’s Bondi Beach.
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On this day in 1945, U.S. forces began a secret operation to distribute Allied propaganda through Germany’s own postal service.
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On this day in 1913, New York City’s Grand Central Terminal was officially opened to the public.
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On this day in 1884, the first section of the Oxford English Dictionary was published, covering the words “a” through “ant.”
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On this day in 1945, American soldier Edward Slovik was shot to death for deserting his post.
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On this day in 9 BC, the Altar of Peace was dedicated in Rome as a tribute to Caesar Augustus.
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On this day in 1929, the Seeing Eye was established as the first guide dog training school in the United States.
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On this day in 1892, pioneering aviator Elizabeth “Bessie” Coleman was born in Atlanta, Texas.
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On this day in 1759, celebrated poet Robert Burns was born in Alloway, Scotland.
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On this day in 1908, the first installment of Robert Baden-Powell’s “Scouting for Boys” was published in England.
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On this day in 1968, the USS Pueblo and its 83 crew members were captured at sea by North Korean forces.
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On this day in 1997, Tulsa resident Lottie Williams was struck by falling debris from a Delta II rocket.
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On this day in 1943, legendary rock singer Janis Joplin was born in Port Arthur, Texas.
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On this day in 1975, the groundbreaking sitcom "The Jeffersons" aired for the first time on CBS.
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On this day in 1917, Denmark sold the islands of Saint Thomas, Saint John, and Saint Croix to the United States.
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On this day in 1547, 16-year-old Ivan Vasilyevich was proclaimed the first tsar of Russia.
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On this day in 1951, Ilse Koch was sentenced to life in prison for crimes against humanity.
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On this day in 1863, Hindu spiritual leader Swami Vivekananda was born in Kolkata, India.
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On this day in 1922, Canadian teenager Leonard Thompson became the first diabetic patient to be treated with insulin.
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On this day in 1952, Cecil B. DeMille's "The Greatest Show on Earth" premiered at Radio City Music Hall in New York.
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On this day in 1868, the last ship to take British convicts to Australia arrived at the port of Fremantle.
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On this day in 1811, the German Coast Uprising, a slave revolt in modern-day Louisiana, began.
On this day in 1867, the U.S. Congress passed the …
On this day in 1893, blues and folk musician Elizabeth Cotten was born near Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
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Topsy the Elephant was electrocuted on this day in 1903.
On this day in 1809, French educator Louis Braille, namesake of the Braille reading and writing system, was born.
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On this day in 1848, Black American merchant Joseph Jenkins Roberts was sworn in as the first president of Liberia.
On this day in 1946, William Joyce, better known to the British as Lord Haw-Haw, was put to death for …
On this day in 1942, thirty-three members of a Nazi spy ring headed by Frederick Joubert Duquesne were sentenced to serve time in prison.
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On this day in 1974, President Richard Nixon established a maximum speed …
On this day in 1818, Mary Shelley's debut novel, "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus," was first published.
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On this day in 1959, musician Johnny Cash rang in the new year by performing live at San Quentin State …
On this day in 1566, eccentric astronomer Tycho Brahe lost a large chunk of his nose in a swordfight with his third cousin.
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On this day in 1917, Baltimore journalist Henry L. Mencken published a faux history of the bathtub titled “A Neglected Anniversary.”
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On this day in 1944, the Roosevelt administration seized control of the Montgomery Ward company for a second time.
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On this day in 1947, a record-breaking snowstorm wreaked havoc in New York City.
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On this day in 1223, St. Francis created the world's first Nativity scene in Greccio, Italy.
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On this day in 1882, the first Christmas tree with electric lights was displayed at the home of Edward Hibberd Johnson.
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On this day in 1970, rock icon Elvis Presley met with President Richard Nixon at the White House.
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On this day in 1946, Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life" premiered at the Globe Theatre in New York City.
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On this day in 1854, Captain Jonathan Davis squared off against 14 bandits in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
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On this day in 1965, American speed skater Ken LeBel set a world record by jumping over 17 barrels while wearing ice skates.
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On this day in 1973, the American Psychiatric Association reversed its stance on homosexuality, declaring that it is not a mental illness.
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On this day in 1926, acclaimed novelist Agatha Christie resurfaced after a mysterious 11-day disappearance.
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On this day in 1920, Hans Riegel founded the Haribo candy company in Bonn, Germany.
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On this day in 1980, a notebook containing writings and illustrations by Leonardo da Vinci was sold at auction for $5.1 million.
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On this day in 1936, Edward VIII became the first monarch in British history to give up the throne voluntarily.
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On this day in 1886, renowned muralist Diego Rivera was born in Guanajuato, Mexico.
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On this day in 1974, “Kung Fu Fighting” by Carl Douglas kicked its way to the top spot on the U.S. singles chart.
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On this day in 1915, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a federal law revoking the citizenship of American women who married noncitizens.
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On this day in 1951, the Park-O-Mat driverless parking garage opened in Washington, D.C.
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On this day in 1971, the Montreux Casino burned to the ground during a concert by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention.
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On this day in 1909, the first Christmas savings account was opened at the Carlisle Trust Company in Pennsylvania.
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Elizabeth I delivered her "Golden Speech" on this day in 1601.
On this day in 1966, the east Caribbean island of Barbados gained its independence from …
On this day in 1847, a group of Cayuse tribespeople killed 13 people at the Whitman Mission, as they believed that physician and religious leader Marcus Whitman was deliberately spreading measles.
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Anne Bonny and Mary Read were convicted of piracy on this day in 1720. You can find more to the story in the August 15, 2016 episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class.
On this day in 1967, astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell …
On this day in 1810, Theodore Hook the sent a multitude of goods and service providers to the home of Mrs. Tottenham at 54 Berners Street in London …
On this day in 1914, physical therapist and inventor Bessie Blount was born.
On this day in 1642, Dutch explorer Abel Tasman recorded the first European sighting of the island now known as Tasmania.
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On this day in 1883, Mexican painter José Clemente Orozco was born.
On this day in 1889, an early forerunner of the modern jukebox was installed for public use at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco, California.
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Blackbeard was killed on this day in 1718. There's more to the story in the May 5, 2014 episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class.
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On this day in 1953, the Piltdown Man, supposedly the remains of a missing evolutionary link between apes and humans, was revealed to be a hoax in …
A whale sank the Essex on this day in 1820. There's more in the Sep. 27, 2010 episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class.
On this day in 1695, Afro-Brazilian anti-resistance leader Zumbi was executed by the Portuguese.
On this day in 1953, the Irish government evacuated the last remaining residents of the Blasket Islands.
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On this day in 1532, the last ruler of the Inca Empire was captured by Spanish conquistadors at the Battle of Cajamarca.
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On this day in 1867, the world’s first stock ticker was unveiled at the New York Stock Exchange.
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On this day in 1960, six-year-old Ruby Bridges became the first Black student to attend a previously all-white school in New Orleans.
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On this day in 1940, Walt Disney's "Fantasia" premiered at the Broadway Theatre in New York City.
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On this day in 1908, the first Gideons Bibles were placed at the Superior Hotel in Montana.
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On this day in 1990, the IRS seized Willie Nelson’s properties in six states for non-payment of taxes.
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On this day in 1939, a German carpenter tried to kill Adolf Hitler.
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On this day in 1965, the Pillsbury Doughboy appeared in his first TV commercial.
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On this day in 1990, an arson fire swept through the Universal Studios backlot.
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On this day in 1948, the Chicago Tribune wrongly declared Thomas Dewey the winner of the previous day’s presidential election.
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On this day in 1988, a rogue computer program was unleashed on the Internet for the first time.
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On this day in 1959, Jacques Plante became the first goalie to wear a face mask during an NHL game.
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On this day in 1589, alleged werewolf Peter Stumpp was put to death in Bedburg, Germany.
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On this day in 1985, “Garfield’s Halloween Adventure” aired for the first time on CBS.
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On this day in 1954, the King of the Monsters made his big screen debut when the original “Godzilla” premiered in Nagoya, Japan.
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On this day in 1973, the infamous island prison of Alcatraz was opened to the public.
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On this day in 1944, the first kamikaze bombers sank an American warship at the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
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On this day in 1593, a Spanish soldier fell asleep in the Philippines and supposedly woke up in Mexico just a few seconds later.
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On this day in 1935, American gangster Dutch Schultz was ambushed at the Palace Chop House in Newark, New Jersey.
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On this day in 1968, Dick Fosbury used a revolutionary high jump technique to win a gold medal at the Mexico City Olympic Games.
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On this day in 1985, the first Blockbuster video rental store opened in Dallas, Texas.
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On this day in 1898, American troops raised the U.S. flag over Puerto Rico.
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On this day in 1943, after a year of grueling labor, the two sides of the Burma Railway were joined at the Konkoita POW camp in Thailand.
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On this day in 1869, a 10-foot-tall stone giant was unearthed on a farm in Cardiff, New York.
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On this day in 1860, James Wallace Black took a photo of Boston from a hot air balloon 1,200 feet in the air.
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On this day in 1979, Douglas Adams published his comedic sci-fi masterpiece "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
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On this day in 1865, Paul Bogle led hundreds of Black Jamaican protestors in the Morant Bay Rebellion.
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On this day in 1865, American inventor John Wesley Hyatt received a patent for an imitation ivory pool ball.
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On this day in 1992, a meteorite the size of a bowling ball crashed into a parked Chevy Malibu in a suburb of Peekskill, New York.
Che Guevara was executed on this day in 1967.
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On this day in 1945, William Sianis allegedly put a curse on the Chicago Cubs after he and his pet goat were ejected from Wrigley Field.
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On this day in 1974, American Dave Kunst became the first known person to circumnavigate the globe on foot.
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On this day in 1915, President Woodrow Wilson established the Dinosaur National Monument to protect one of the world’s richest known fossil beds.
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On this day in 1942, Nazi Germany successfully fired the world’s first long-range guided ballistic missile.
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On this day in 1950, Charles Schulz’s beloved “Peanuts” comic strip began its record-setting, 50-year run.
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On this day in 1829, Scotland Yard was founded as the headquarters of Greater London’s Metropolitan Police.
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On this day in 1850, an act of Congress outlawed the practice of flogging within the U.S. Navy.
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On this day in 1937, the Charles W. Howard Santa Claus School opened in Albion, New York.
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On this day in 1963, the Alabama Supreme Court upheld the contempt conviction of Mary Hamilton.
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On this day in 1929, esteemed broadcast journalist Barbara Walters was born in Boston, Massachusetts.
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On this day in 1888, "National Geographic Magazine" began publication as the official journal of the National Geographic Society.
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On this day in 1780, American General Benedict Arnold agreed to betray his country in exchange for £20,000 and a high rank in the British army.
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On this day in 1977, during an infamous episode of “Happy Days,” Henry Winkler’s Fonzie jumped over a shark while on water skis.
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On this day in 1959, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev lost his composure after being told that he could not go to Disneyland.
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On this day in 1973, Jimmy Carter filed a report claiming he had seen an unidentified flying object four years earlier.
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On this day in 1971, the long-running detective series “Columbo” premiered on NBC.
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On this day in 1814, Francis Scott Key penned the poem that later became America’s national anthem.
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On this day in 1899, Henry Hale Bliss was fatally struck by a taxicab.
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On this day in 1952, seven people encountered a mysterious creature on a farm in Flatwoods, West Virginia.
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On this day in 1992, a Category 4 hurricane devastated the Hawaiian island of Kauai.
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The Delano Grape Strike began on this day in 1965.
On this day in 1504, Michelangelo's David was unveiled to the public.
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Pirates raided the Ganj-i-Sawai on this day in 1695. There's more in the May 9, 2018 episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class, "Henry Every, …
On this day in 1651, after fleeing for his life following his defeat at the Battle of Worcester, Charles II, the King of Scotland and rightful King …
"Hippie" was first used in print with its current meaning on this day in 1965.
On this day in 1976, The Muppet Show, created by American puppeteer and filmmaker Jim Henson, made its world premiere on ITV stations …
A series of events known as the Peekskill Riots ended on this day in 1949.
On this day in 1888, American entrepreneur George Eastman received a patent …
An error during a crash dive led to a catastrophe aboard the submarine USS S-5 on this day in 1920. There's more to the story in the November 26, 2014 episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class.
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Mary Ann Nichols was murdered on this day in 1888, the first canonical victim of Jack the Ripper.
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England's master gardener, Lancelot "Capability" Brown, was baptized on this day in 1716.
On this day in 1892, the steamship Moravia arrived in New …
On this day in history, race car driver Wendell Scott was born in Virginia. Learn more about Scott in a two-part episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class.
On this day in 1911, the last surviving member of the Yahi …
Emmett Till was murdered on this day in 1955. For a longer look at the story, listen to the August 28, 2017 episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class, "The Motherhood of Mamie Till-Mobley."
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The Great Moon Hoax began on this day in 1835. There are many more details in the March 30 and April 1, 2015, episodes of Stuff You Missed in History Class.
On this day in 1925, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters …
On this day in 1995, Microsoft launched its revolutionary Windows 95 operating system.
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On this day in 1305, Sir William Wallace was put to death in London for alleged treason against King Edward I of England.
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On this day in 1902, Theodore Roosevelt became the first American president to make a public appearance riding in an automobile.
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On this day in 1614, notorious serial killer Elizabeth Báthory was found dead in Čachtice Castle.
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On this day in 1868, French astronomer Pierre Janssen discovered an unknown element while observing a solar eclipse.
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On this day in 1653, French finance minister Nicolas Fouquet hosted an ill-advised party at his new palatial estate.
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On this day in 1841, an angry mob gathered outside the White House and burned an effigy of President John Tyler.
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On this day in 1877, Thomas Edison proposed saying “hello” when greeting someone on the telephone.
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On this day in 1953, David Nelson Mullany created the first working prototype of the Wiffle Ball.
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On this day in 1992, the Mall of America had its grand opening in Bloomington, Minnesota.
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On this day in 1835, a mob of hundreds of white men used a team of oxen to pull an integrated schoolhouse off its foundation.
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On this day in 1930, beloved cartoon character Betty Boop made her big-screen debut in the animated short “Dizzy Dishes.”
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On this day in 1975, American geochemist Wallace Broecker coined the term “global warming.”
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On this day in 1888, American inventor Theophilus Van Kannel was granted a patent for the revolving door.
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On this day in 1983, New York Yankees’ right fielder Dave Winfield was arrested for accidentally killing a seagull.
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On this day in 1985, after more than a year without service, residents of the Paradise Lakes nudist resort started receiving mail again.
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On this day in 1876, legendary lawman “Wild Bill” Hickok was shot in the back of the head while playing poker.
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On this day in 1961, the original Six Flags theme park had its soft opening in Arlington, Texas.
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On this day in 1971, NASA astronauts drove a Lunar Roving Vehicle on the Moon for the first time.
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On this day in 1932, the pre-Code horror film “White Zombie” premiered at the Rivoli Theatre in New York City.
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On this day in 1949, the world’s first jet-powered airliner made its inaugural test flight.
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On this day in 1775, the U.S. postal system was established by the Second Continental Congress.
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On this day in 1956, the Italian ocean liner Andrea Doria and the Swedish ocean liner Stockholm collided off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts.
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On this day in 1851, Great Britain’s wildly unpopular window tax was finally repealed after 156 years on the books.
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On this day in 356 BC, a mysterious anarchist named Herostratus set fire to the world-renowned Temple of Artemis.
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On this day in 1941, a group of badly burned airmen in the Royal Air Force established "The Guinea Pig Club."
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On this day in 1903, French bicycler Maurice Garin took first place at the inaugural Tour de France.
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On this day in 1955, a ceremony commemorating the first sale of atomic electricity was held at a power plant in West Milton, New York.
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On this day in 1902, mechanical engineer Willis Carrier completed his design for what would become the first modern air conditioner.
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On this day in 1865, British climber Edward Whymper and six companions completed the first ascent of the Matterhorn.
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On this day in 1977, a citywide power outage created total chaos in New York City.
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On this day in 1960, the Ohio Art Company released a new mechanical drawing toy called the Etch A Sketch.
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On this day in 1987, the United Nations proclaimed a newborn boy the world’s five billionth inhabitant.
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On this day in 1913, a weather observer in Death Valley measured a record high temperature of 134°F.
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On this day in 1898, President William McKinley signed a joint resolution annexing the Hawaiian islands to the United States.
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Please enjoy these July 6th flashbacks from the TDIHC vault, and we will see you tomorrow for a brand new episode!
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Please enjoy these July 5th flashbacks from the TDIHC vault, and we will see you Friday for a brand new episode!
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On this day in 1986, President Ronald Reagan rededicated the Statue of Liberty in honor of its centennial anniversary.
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On this day in 1936, the novel “Gone With the Wind” by Margaret Mitchell was first published by the Macmillan Company.
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On this day in 1979, an early sports mascot named the San Diego Chicken made his triumphant return to professional baseball.
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On this day in 1874, all branches of the Freedmen’s Bank closed their doors for good.
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On this day in 1871, the yen became the national currency of Japan.
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On this day in 1974, products marked with barcodes were sold for the first time at a supermarket in Troy, Ohio.
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On this day in 1989, Tim Burton’s Batman made its theatrical debut.
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On this day in 1847, according to culinary legend, American sailor Hanson Gregory invented the ring-shaped doughnut.
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On this day in 1913, Georgia “Tiny” Broadwick became the first woman to skydive from an airplane.
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On this day in 1910, Father's Day was celebrated for the first time in Spokane, Washington.
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On this day in 1961, Russian ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defected from the Soviet Union at an airport in Paris.
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On this day in 1992, during a campaign stop at a New Jersey elementary school, Vice President Dan Quayle misspelled the word “potato.”
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On this day in 1954, the United States conducted the first in a series of nationwide civil defense tests known as Operation Alert.
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On this day in 1886, the body of Bavarian king Ludwig II was found floating in Lake Starnberg, just south of Munich.
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On this day in 1979, hang glider pilot and amateur cyclist Bryan Allen made the first human-powered flight across the English Channel.
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On this day in 1902, America's first coin-operated cafeteria opened in Philadelphia.
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On this day in 1516, Pope Leo X’s favorite pet, a rare white elephant named Hanno, passed away at the age of seven.
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On this day in 1982, Elvis Presley’s Memphis home was opened to the public for tours.
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On this day in 1813, British forces launched a surprise attack on U.S. troops encamped at Stoney Creek, Ontario.
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On this day in 1977, the Green Belt Movement began with the planting of seven trees at Kamukunji Park in Nairobi, Kenya.
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On this day in 1813, after being mortally wounded at the Battle of Boston Harbor, Captain James Lawrence issued his final command: “Don’t give up the ship.”
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On this day in 1790, the first U.S. federal copyright law was signed into effect by President George Washington.
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On this day in 1930, the U.S. War Department insisted that Black mothers and widows must travel on segregated boats in order to visit their loved ones’ graves in Europe.
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On this day in 1969, John Lennon and Yoko Ono began a week-long bed-in for peace at a hotel in Montreal, Canada.
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On this day in 1994, the ashes of Pennsylvania native George Swanson were buried in the driver’s seat of his beloved sports car.
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On this day in 1970, Soviet engineers began drilling the deepest man-made hole ever dug.
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On this day in 1796, George and Martha Washington offered a $10 reward for the capture of an escaped enslaved woman named Ona Judge.
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On this day in 1856, Congressman Preston Brooks attacked Senator Charles Sumner with a metal-tipped cane.
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On this day in 1928, more than 15,000 people attended a now-annual frog jumping contest in Calaveras County, California.
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On this day in 1927, Grauman’s Chinese Theatre opened on Hollywood Boulevard, marking the debut of one of the world’s most iconic cinemas.
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On this day in 1620, English traveler Peter Mundy wrote the earliest known description of a carousel ride.
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On this day in 1985, the discovery of the Antarctic ozone hole was first reported in the scientific journal Nature.
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On this day in 1969, Justice Abe Fortas stepped down from the Supreme Court due to his involvement in a financial scandal.
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On this day in 1978, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced that it would no longer name hurricanes exclusively after women.
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On this day in 1947, the B.F. Goodrich Company announced its development of a tubeless car tire.
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On this day in 1999, beloved children’s author Shel Silverstein died of a heart attack at his home in Key West, Florida.
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On this day in 1960, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first commercially produced birth control pill.
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On this day in 1886, Coca-Cola was sold for the first time at a pharmacy in Atlanta, Georgia.
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On this day in 1809, Mary Kies became the first woman in the United States to receive a patent in her own name.
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On this day in 1873, a toll bridge in Dixon, Illinois, collapsed into the Rock River and took a crowd of more than 200 people with it.
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On this day in 1966, late-night talk show host Johnny Carson and actress Eva Gabor demonstrated how to play a new party game called Twister.
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On this day in 1935, thousands of Filipino peasants staged a rebellion in the agricultural region of Central Luzon.
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On this day in 1924, the first iodized salt in the U.S. went on sale at Michigan grocery stores.
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On this day in 1937, the first animated electric sign was installed on Broadway in New York City.
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On this day in 1953, U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed an executive order that banned gay people from working for the federal government.
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On this day in 1886, legendary blues singer Ma Rainey was born in Columbus, Georgia.
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On this day in 1792, a French bandit became the first person to be killed by guillotine.
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On this day in 1960, during a peaceful demonstration at Biloxi Beach, a group of Black activists were attacked by white segregationists.
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On this day in 1989, Nintendo released the original Game Boy in Japan.
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On this day in 1943, Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann discovered the psychic effects of LSD while bike riding home from his lab.
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On this day in 1930, BBC Radio announced there was no news to report and played 15 minutes of piano music instead.
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On this day in 1937, cartoon icon Daffy Duck appeared for the first time in the Warner Bros. animated short “Porky’s Duck Hunt.”
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On this day in 1945, the crew of a Nazi submarine had to abandon ship after a plumbing issue forced them to surface in the line of enemy fire.
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On this day in 1976, to mark the bicentennial of American independence, a new $2 bill was released to the public.
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On this day in 1877, Harvard student James Tyng became the first-known baseball player to wear a catcher’s mask.
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On this day in 1938, the first meeting of the Barbershop Harmony Society was held in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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On this day in 1912, the RMS Titanic departed from Southampton on its doomed maiden voyage to New York.
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On this day in 1978, U.S. President Jimmy Carter announced his decision to delay production of the neutron bomb.
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On this day in 1896, the opening ceremony of the first modern Olympic Games took place in Athens, Greece.
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On this day in 1985, more than 8,000 radio stations played the charity single “We Are the World” simultaneously.
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On this day in 1958, the world famous peace symbol was displayed for the first time at an anti-nuclear war rally in London.
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On this day in 1969, CBS Television canceled The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, a popular yet controversial variety show.
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On this day in 1776, Abigail Adams wrote a letter to her husband, John Adams, imploring him and his political colleagues to keep the interests of …
On this day in 1858, Jamaican-born inventor Hymen Lipman registered the first patent for a pencil with a built-in eraser.
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On this day in 1929, President Herbert Hoover had the first telephone installed in the Oval Office.
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On this day in 1960, an explosive fire at a whisky warehouse claimed the lives of fourteen firefighters and five members of the Glasgow Salvage Corps.
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On this day in 1912, First Lady Helen Taft and Viscountess Iwa Chinda planted two Japanese cherry trees in Washington, D.C.
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On this day in 1857, the first commercial elevator began operation inside a New York City department store.
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On this day in 1621, Dutch legal scholar Hugo Grotius escaped his imprisonment by hiding inside a book chest.
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On this day in 1962, a black bear named Yogi was ejected from a supersonic bomber during a test of the plane’s escape capsule.
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On this day in 1345, the alignment of three planets supposedly caused the Black Death pandemic.
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On this day in 1958, production began on the live-action Disney film Darby O'Gill and the Little People.
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On this day in 1995, Mississippi finally voted to ratify the 13th Amendment–130 years after its passage.
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On this day in 1985, the first dot-com domain name was registered by Symbolics Inc., a Massachusetts computer company.
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On this day in 1833, American dentist and women’s rights activist Lucy Hobbs Taylor was born.
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On this day in 1781, German-born British astronomer William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus.
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On this day in 1926, Sylvia Townsend Warner’s debut novel, Lolly Willowes, was published by Viking Press.
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On this day in 432 BC, the newly-completed Parthenon was dedicated to the Greek goddess Athena.
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On this day in 1951, a serial killer couple known as the Lonely Hearts Killers were put to death at Sing Sing Prison.
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On this day in 1988, the Writers Guild of America began one of the longest union strikes in Hollywood history.
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On this day in 1987, the Herald of Free Enterprise ferry capsized shortly after leaving the Zeebrugge harbor in Belgium.
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On this day in 1887, American teacher Anne Sullivan was introduced to her star pupil, Helen Keller.
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On this day in 1789, the Pennsylvania legislature lifted a decade-long ban on live theater.
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On this day in 1639, Governor John Winthrop documented a report of unidentified flying objects in the sky above Boston.
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On this day in 1844, an American naval cannon exploded during a peacetime demonstration, killing six spectators and wounding many others.
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On this day in 1922, the Boston Presbytery voted to remove Reverend Edwin Curtis from his church after learning he had baptized a dog.
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On this day in 1835, Jotham Meeker published the first newspaper printed entirely in a Native American language.
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On this day in 1868, author and civil rights advocate W.E.B. Du Bois was born.
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On this day in 1989, DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince's “Parents Just Don't Understand” became the first hip-hop song to win a Grammy.
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On this day in 1948, the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing was officially incorporated.
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On this day in 1997, the Virginia House of Delegates voted unanimously to retire the state song.
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On this day in 1957, British TV broadcasters broke the “toddler’s truce” by adding an extra hour of evening programming.
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On this day in 1903, a Brooklyn candy store advertised the world’s first teddy bear.
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On this day in 1929, seven members of “Bugs” Moran’s gang were shot dead at a garage in Chicago.
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On this day in 1920, the newly formed League of Nations formally recognized Swiss neutrality.
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On this day in 1920, the Major League Baseball rules committee officially banned the spitball pitch.
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On this day in 1796, the emperor of China renounced his throne in deference to his grandfather.
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On this day in 1855, a trail of unusual footprints caused a religious panic in South West England.
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On this day in 1984, astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert Lee Stewart became the first humans to walk untethered in space.
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On this day in 1917, the first national meeting of the Sámi people was held in Trondheim, Norway.
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On this day in 1953, French oceanographer Jacques Cousteau published his bestselling memoir The Silent World.
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On this day in 1925, American retailer Sears opened its first department store in Chicago.
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On this day in 1951, the KTLA TV station in Los Angeles made the first live broadcast of an atomic explosion.
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On this day in 1990, the first McDonald’s in Russia opened for business in Moscow’s Pushkin Square.
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On this day in 1815, President James Madison authorized Congress to purchase Thomas Jefferson’s personal library.
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On this day in 1996, German president Roman Herzog declared a national day of remembrance for the victims of Nazism.
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On this day in 1784, in a letter to his daughter, Benjamin Franklin expressed his disapproval of the eagle as America’s symbol.
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On this day in 1858, the “Wedding March” and “Here Comes the Bride” were performed together for the first time at a royal wedding in London.
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On this day in 1922, Danish immigrant Christian K. Nelson received a patent for a frozen treat known as the Eskimo Pie.
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On this day in 1897, the lifeless body of Elva Zona Heaster Shue was found inside her home in Greenbrier County, West Virginia.
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On this day in 1649, following his defeat by Parliament in the English Civil Wars, King Charles I was put on trial for tyranny and treason.
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On this day in 1946, singer-songwriter Dolly Parton was born in Locust Ridge, Tennessee.
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On this day in 1779, English thesaurus author Peter Mark Roget was born in Soho, London.
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On this day in 1997, the High Court of Ireland granted the country’s first divorce.
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On this day in 1749, an angry crowd destroyed a London theater after a performer known as the Bottle Conjuror failed to make his scheduled appearance.
On this day in 1942, American industrialist Henry Ford received a patent for a plastic-bodied car made from soybeans.
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On this day in 1998, nineteen European nations signed a pact prohibiting the cloning of human beings.
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On this day in 1878, the New York Dairy Company delivered milk in glass bottles for what’s believed to be the first time.
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On this day in 1897, Ukrainian scientist Waldemar Haffkine injected himself with a vaccine he created to combat bubonic plague.
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On this day in 1799, British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger introduced the nation’s first income tax.
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On this day in 1974, in response to an ongoing energy crisis, daylight saving time went into effect three months early in the United States.
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On this day in 1463, the Parlement of Paris sentenced medieval poet François Villon to 10 years of banishment from the city.
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On this day in 1981, a lavish Broadway adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was shuttered after a single performance.
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On this day in 1957, the Hamilton Watch company introduced the first wristwatch powered by a battery.
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On this day in 1971, beginning at midnight, cigarette companies could no longer advertise their products on American television or radio.
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On this day in 1996, the centuries-old Stone of Destiny was officially returned to Scotland and put on display in Edinburgh Castle.
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On this day in 1898, British literary scholar and children’s book author C.S. Lewis was born in Belfast, Ireland.
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On this day in 1922, Royal Air Force Captain Cyril Turner became the first pilot in the U.S. to use skywriting as a form of advertising.
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On this day in 1984, a group of celebrity musicians recorded the benefit song “Do They Know It’s Christmas?”
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On this day in 1874, farmer and rancher Joseph Glidden was granted a patent for double-stranded barbed wire.
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On this day in 534 BC, an ancient Greek performer named Thespis became the first known actor to portray a character on stage.
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On this day in 1927, American inventor Carl Eliason received a patent for an early version of the snowmobile.
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On this day in 1783, at a public demonstration in Paris, two volunteers embarked on the first free ascent in a hot air balloon.
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On this day in 1966, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops loosened the rule requiring Catholics to abstain from meat on Fridays.
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On this day in 1913, German monarch Kaiser Wilhelm II forbade his officers from dancing the tango while in uniform.
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On this day in 1974, scientists at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico sent the first message intended for alien lifeforms.
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On this day in 1937, cartoonist Al Capp introduced the pseudo-holiday known as Sadie Hawkins Day in his Li’l Abner comic strip.
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On this day in 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island was published as a single-volume book.
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On this day in 1961, in the rural Dutch village of Staphorst, residents publicly shamed a cheating couple by driving them through the streets in the back of a dung wagon.
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On this day in 1969, the pioneering children’s education series, Sesame Street, aired its first episode.
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On this day in 1961, the Professional Golfers’ Association of America ended its longstanding ban on non-white members.
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On this day in 1291, the Venetian Republic ordered all local glassmakers to relocate to the nearby island of Murano.
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On this day in 1916, Jeannette Rankin became the first woman in American history to win a seat in Congress.
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On this day in 1879, the Ritty brothers of Dayton, Ohio, received the patent for the first mechanical cash register.
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On this day in 1883, Charles "Black Bart" Bowles robbed his 28th Wells Fargo wagon, the last before his capture.
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On this day in 1959, Charles Van Doren admitted that his winning streak on a popular TV quiz show had been rigged by the show's producers.
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On this day in 1968, the Motion Picture Association of America announced its first ratings system for films.
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On this day in 1974, Ronald Clark O'Bryan gave cyanide disguised as candy to five trick-or-treaters, including his own children.
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On this day in 1977, the animated special Halloween Is Grinch Night aired for the first time on ABC.
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On this day in 1962, “Monster Mash” by Bobby “Boris” Pickett and the Crypt-Kickers topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart for the second week in a row.
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On this day in 1859, one of the worst storms in history struck the British Isles, sinking 133 ships and badly damaging 90 others.
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On this day in 1993, prolific actor Vincent Price died at his home in Los Angeles at the age of 82.
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On this day in 1973, a mix of fog and smoke blanketed the New Jersey Turnpike, setting off a chain of deadly collisions.
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On this day in 1991, Apple launched its PowerBook 100 series of laptop computers.
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On this day in 1973, the iconic Sydney Opera House was dedicated by Queen Elizabeth II.
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On this day in 1961, a London tea company accepted a check for $1.96 as partial compensation for the Boston Tea Parties.
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On this day in 1929, Canada’s highest court of appeals determined that women are included in the country’s legal definition of “persons.”
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On this day in 1871, President Grant declared martial law and suspended the writ of habeas corpus in nine South Carolina counties where KKK activity …
On this day in 1892, British author Arthur Conan Doyle published The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, a collection of the first 12 stories to feature …
On this day in 1983, the first commercial cell phone call was made from Soldier Field stadium in Chicago, Illinois.
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On this day in 1984, TV star Jon-Erik Hexum mistakenly shot and killed himself after misfiring a prop gun on the set of his show.
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On this day in 1987, more than 300,000 people took part in the second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights.
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On this day in 1971, after three years of painstaking reconstruction, the London Bridge was reopened in Lake Havasu City, Arizona.
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On this day in 1952, Vladimir Putin was born in the Soviet city of Leningrad, now known as St. Petersburg, Russia.
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On this day in 1889, the world famous Moulin Rouge cabaret held its first performance in Paris.
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On this day in 1975, American R&B singer Jackie Wilson collapsed on stage during a performance and went into a coma.
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On this day in 1928, Scottish microbiologist Alexander Fleming discovered a life-saving antibiotic agent, which he called penicillin.
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On this day in 1986, a fundraising stunt created chaos and confusion by flooding Cleveland, Ohio, with 1.5 million balloons.
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On this day in 1960, Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy squared off in the first televised presidential debate in American history.
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On this day in 1923, Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet hit bookstore shelves for the first time.
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On this day in 1776, Captain Nathan Hale of the Continental Army was hanged by the British for spying.
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On this day in 1915, at an auction in Salisbury, England, Cecil Chubb placed the winning bid for the Stonehenge monument.
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On this day in 1977, the first group of the so-called “boat people” were admitted to the United States as refugees from Communist Vietnam.
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On this day in 1960, Chubby Checker’s rendition of “The Twist” reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.
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On this day in 1920, a horse-drawn carriage rigged with a makeshift bomb exploded on the busiest corner of Wall Street.
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On this day in 1975, Rembrandt van Rijn's “The Night Watch” was vandalized while on display at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
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On this day in 1969, the cartoon series “Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!” aired for the first time on CBS.
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On this day in 1977, anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko died on the floor of a prison hospital in Pretoria, South Africa.
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On this day in 1947, a team of engineers at Harvard University reported the earliest known computer bug.
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On this day in 1960, Alfred Hitchcock’s classic suspense thriller Psycho opened in theaters across the United States.
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On this day in 1813, the Troy Post newspaper in New York made the first published reference to the nickname Uncle Sam.
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On this day in 1916, entrepreneur Clarence Saunders opened the Piggly Wiggly, the first self-service grocery store in the United States.
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On this day in 1698, Tsar Peter I imposed an annual tax on Russians who wished to keep their facial hair.
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On this day in 1798, over $160,000 was stolen from the Bank of Pennsylvania at Carpenters’ Hall, marking the first recorded bank heist in American …
On this day in 1941, the Nazi regime ordered all Jews in Germany over the age of six to publicly identify themselves by wearing a yellow star.
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On this day in 1920, John Lloyd Wright received the patent for his “Cabin Construction'' toy, otherwise known as Lincoln Logs.
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On this day in 1983, U.S. astronaut Guion Bluford became the first African American in space.
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On this day in 1911, the last surviving member of the Yahi people was found, on the brink of starvation, near a slaughterhouse in Oroville, California.
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On this day in 1985, French officials denied any involvement in the recent bombing of the anti-nuclear protest vessel, Rainbow Warrior.
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On this day in 1916, President Woodrow Wilson signed the Organic Act, which established the National Park Service and placed all existing parks under its protection.
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On this day in 1853, according to culinary legend, acclaimed chef George "Crum" Speck invented the potato chip.
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On this day in 1814, First Lady Dolley Madison helped save a portrait of George Washington from being destroyed by British troops during the War of …
On this day in 1762, Ann Smith Franklin became the sole editor and publisher of the Newport Mercury newspaper.
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On this day in 1909, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway hosted its inaugural auto race.
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On this day in 1227, notorious warlord Genghis Khan died from unknown causes during the conquest of the Chinese kingdom of Xi Xia.
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On this day in 1962, eighteen-year-old Peter Fechter was gunned down by East German border guards while attempting to climb over the Berlin Wall.
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On this day in 1898, inventor and mechanic Edwin Prescott was granted the first patent for a vertical loop roller coaster.
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On this day in 1057, Malcolm Canmore avenged his father’s death by slaying King Macbeth of Scotland at the Battle of Lumphanan.
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On this day in 1990, fossil hunters in South Dakota uncovered the largest and most complete T. rex skeleton ever found.
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On this day in 1866, James Plimpton opened the first public roller skating rink in the United States.
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On this day in 1846, thanks to an unusual bequest from British scientist James Smithson, the Smithsonian Institution was established in the United States.
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On this day in 1944, Smokey Bear was chosen as the mascot of a new forest fire prevention campaign in the United States.
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On this day in 1963, a masked gang committed the most notorious train robbery in British history, when they stole £2.6 million from a Traveling Post …
On this day in 1953, with the Korean War winding down, both sides of the conflict began to exchange their remaining prisoners.
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On this day in 1821, The Saturday Evening Post published its inaugural issue.
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On this day in 1977, electronics retailer RadioShack unveiled the TRS-80, one of the first personal computers marketed to the average consumer.
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On this day in 1790, federal marshals set out on horseback to begin the first official count of the American people.
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On this day in 1981, MTV went on the air for the first time at 12:01 AM.
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On this day in 1588, the Spanish Armada was defeated by an English naval force off the coast of Gravelines, France.
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On this day in 1933, a Western Union operator named Lucille Lipps delivered the company’s first singing telegram.
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On this day in 1940, cartoon icon Bugs Bunny appeared for the first time in the Warner Bros. animated short “A Wild Hare.”
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On this day in 1184, dozens of noblemen plunged to their deaths after a floor collapsed above a monastery cesspit in modern-day Germany.
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On this day in 1990, actress and comedian Roseanne Barr sang an ear-splitting rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner” before the start of a Major League Baseball game.
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On this day in 1959, Ed Wood’s campy cult classic Plan 9 from Outer Space premiered in theaters.
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On this day in 1983, at Russia’s Vostok research station in Antarctica, scientists reported the coldest temperature ever recorded on Earth.
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On this day in 1801, the town of Cheshire, Massachusetts, made a 1,235-pound cheese wheel as a gift for President Thomas Jefferson.
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On this day in 1979, during a tropical storm, two enormous supertankers collided off the coast of Tobago.
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On this day in 1936, Oscar Mayer’s original Wienermobile made its debut in the company’s hometown of Chicago.
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On this day in 1976, three men kidnapped a school bus driver and 26 children in Chowchilla, California.
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On this day in 1946, Dr. Benjamin Spock’s seminal book about child care was published for the first time.
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On this day in 1865, P. T. Barnum’s American Museum in New York City was destroyed in a mysterious fire.
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On this day in 1979, a promotional event at a Major League Baseball game devolved into a dangerous riot.
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On this day in 1985, Dr. Harry Harlan Stone announced the successful use of zippers to open and close surgical incisions.
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On this day in 1994, Communist dictator and founder of North Korea Kim Il-Sung died of a heart attack.
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On this day in 1981, President Ronald Reagan nominated court of appeals judge Sandra Day O’Connor to be the first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.
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On this day in 1699, Captain William Kidd was arrested and jailed in Boston on charges of piracy.
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On this day in 1946, French designer Louis Réard introduced the world to the bikini.
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On this day in 1881, the Tuskegee State Normal School, now Tuskegee University, opened its doors to students for the first time.
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On this day in 1963, the ZIP Code was introduced as part of a nationwide effort to improve the speed of mail delivery in the United States.
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On this day in 1859, French daredevil Charles Blondin became the first person to walk across Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
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On this day in 1995, the American space shuttle Atlantis docked in orbit with the Russian space station Mir.
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On this day in 1846, Belgian musician and inventor Adolphe Sax secured the patent for a brand new instrument: the saxophone.
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On this day in 1922, the Newbery Medal was awarded for the first time as a way to recognize excellence in children’s literature.
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On this day in 1901, Spanish painter Pablo Picasso held the first major exhibition of his artwork at a gallery in Paris.
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On this day in 1979, The Charlie Daniels Band released a hit single called “The Devil Went Down to Georgia.”
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On this day in 1611, English navigator Henry Hudson was cast adrift with eight others after his mutinuous crew seized control of his ship.
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On this day in 1989, in a narrow decision, the United States Supreme Court upheld the rights of protesters to burn the American flag.
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On this day in 1756, dozens of British prisoners were forced to spend the night in an airless cell known colloquially as the Black Hole of Calcutta.
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On this day in 1901, the newly-formed College Board administered its first standardized admissions exams, the precursor to the SAT.
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On this day in 1883, at Victoria Hall in Sunderland, the rush to receive free toys left 183 children dead.
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On this day in 1219, according to Danish legend, the country’s familiar red and white flag fell from the sky as a sign of God’s favor.
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On this day in 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a bill to add the words “under God” to the U.S. Pledge of Allegiance.
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On this day in 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson nominated Judge Thurgood Marshall to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States.
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On this day in 1845, President Andrew Jackson’s funeral was rudely interrupted when his pet parrot began squawking profanities during the service.
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On this day in 1856, nearly 500 members of the Latter-Day Saints set out for Salt Lake City, carrying everything they owned in two-wheeled handcarts.
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On this day in 1937, North America’s first recorded corpse flower bloom took place at the New York Botanical Garden.
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On this day in 1968, the first theme park dedicated to LEGO bricks opened in the company’s hometown of Billund, Denmark.
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On this day in 1933, Richard Hollingshead opened the world's first drive-in theater in Camden, New Jersey.
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On this day in 1956, the town of Santa Cruz, California, issued a blanket ban on rock and roll at public gatherings.
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On this day in 1855, roughly 3,000 people stormed city hall in Portland, Maine, looking for a secret stash of alcohol that had been illegally …
On this day in 1985, a convoy of nearly 600 New Age travelers was assaulted by British police on its way to an annual event at Stonehenge.
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On this day in 1880, cycling fans from across the U.S. gathered to establish the League of American Wheelmen, the first national organization dedicated to the bicycle.
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On this day in 1971, with its first shipment of shoes set to go out the next day, the Blue Ribbon Sports company changed its name to Nike, Inc.
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On this day in 1933, the animated short “Three Little Pigs” premiered at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.
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On this day in 1828, a teenage boy with a mysterious past appeared alone in the public square of what is now Nuremberg, Germany.
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On this day in 1981, a 25-year-old acrobat named Dan Goodwin completed the first external climb of the Sears Tower, the tallest building in the world …
On this day in 1830, “Mary’s Lamb” was released as part of a small book of children’s poems written by Sarah Josepha Hale.
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On this day in 1921, the Broadway musical “Shuffle Along” debuted at the 63rd Street Music Hall.
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On this day in 1899, Jacob German spent a night in jail after committing the first speeding infraction in the United States.
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On this day in 1962, at a fundraising event for the Democratic Party, Marilyn Monroe sang "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" to John F. Kennedy.
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On this day in 1980, triggered by a powerful earthquake, Mount St. Helens volcano erupted in Washington state, killing 57 people and forever changing …
On this day in 1965, after more than a year of investigation, the FBI Laboratory delivered inconclusive results about the lyrics of the popular song …
On this day in 1866, the U.S. Congress ordered the minting of the first nickel-based five-cent coin.
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On this day in 1637, a French clergyman ordered the blades of his dinnerware to be rounded off at the edges, thus creating the first known version of the butter knife.
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On this day in 1928, Buster Keaton’s silent-era masterpiece Steamboat Bill, Jr. premiered at the Rialto Theatre in New York City.
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On this day in 1949, French authorities exhumed the body of Léon Besnard and found telling evidence that he may have been murdered by his wife.
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On this day in 1933, more than 25,000 books were destroyed during a series of book burnings held in college towns throughout Germany.
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On this day in 1914, by order of presidential proclamation, Mother’s Day was officially established as a national holiday in the United States.
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On this day in 1970, professional skier Yūichirō Miura became the first person to ski down Mount Everest.
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On this day in 1921, the iconic perfume Chanel No. 5 was sold for the first time at Coco Chanel’s boutique in Paris.
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On this day in 1979, in celebration of Margaret Thatcher’s election victory, members of the Conservative Party took out a newspaper ad proclaiming, “May The Fourth Be With You, Maggie."
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On this day in 1978, marketing manager Gary Thuerk sent the first unsolicited mass email, or as it’s better known today, “spam.”
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On this day in 1933, Scottish newspaper The Inverness Courier published an account of a local couple who claimed to have seen the legendary Loch Ness Monster.
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On this day in 1967, Aretha Franklin's hit song "Respect" was released as a single on the Atlantic Records label.
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On this day in 1962, armed with nearly 800 pounds of explosives, a team of firefighters led by Red Adair extinguished a massive natural gas well fire in the Sahara Desert.
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On this day in 1667, English poet John Milton entered into an agreement to publish his epic poem Paradise Lost.
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On this day in 1778, sixteen-year-old Sybil Ludington rode more than 40 miles overnight to warn American militiamen of an impending British attack.
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On this day in 1983, the Kremlin released a letter from Soviet leader Yuri Andropov to Samantha Smith, an 11-year-old American girl who was anxious …
On this day in 1964, the second New York World's Fair opened at Flushing Meadows Park in the Queens borough of New York City.
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On this day in 1980, a 26-year-old New Yorker named Rosie Ruiz cheated her way to victory at the 84th annual Boston Marathon.
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On this day in 1841, Edgar Allan Poe published “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” a tale widely considered to be the first modern detective story.
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On this day in 1927, stage actress Mae West was found guilty of crimes of obscenity and sentenced to 10 days in a women’s prison in New York City.
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On this day in 1915, French pilot Lieutenant Roland Garros was captured by German forces during an attack on occupied Belgium.
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On this day in 1924, publisher Rand McNally released the first of its famous guide books, the Rand McNally Auto Chum.
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On this day in 1881, a gunfight at a saloon in downtown El Paso, Texas, left four men dead in five seconds.
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On this day in 1360, a sudden storm killed a thousand English soldiers while they were camped outside the gates of Chartres, France.
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On this day in 1985, the chief veterinarian of the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that a famous circus animal alleged to be a unicorn was, …
On this day in 1870, Lord Muncaster of Britain and four other tourists were captured in Marathon, Greece, by a gang of outlaws.
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On this day in 1974, Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves hit his 715th career home run, surpassing Babe Ruth for the top spot on baseball’s all-time list.
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On this day in 1795, the basis for the metric system was officially defined and adopted by the revolutionary government of France.
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On this day in 1980, Post-it Notes were sold in U.S. stores for the first time.
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On this day in 1943, ten miles off the coast of Brazil, a family of fishermen rescued the sole survivor of a German U-boat attack.
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On this day in 1841, President William Henry Harrison died after serving only 32 days in office.
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On this day in 1957, as an April Fools Day prank, the British Broadcasting Corporation aired a made-up report about harvesting spaghetti from trees.
On this day in 1943, Rodgers and Hammerstein's groundbreaking musical "Oklahoma!" opened on Broadway at St. James Theatre.
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On this day in 1867, after a long night of negotiations, the United States made a deal to purchase Alaska from Russia.
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On this day in 1974, seven local farmers unearthed a host of ancient artifacts while digging a well near Xi'an, China.
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On this day in 1944, finding herself bedridden after slipping on ice, Astrid Lindgren began writing the beloved children’s classic Pippi Longstocking.
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On this day in 1939, Billboard magazine began publishing its first country music chart under the title “Hillbilly Hits.”
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On this day in 1912, civil rights leader Dorothy Height was born in Richmond, Virginia.
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On this day in 1840, amateur photographer John William Draper reported his success in taking detailed images of the Moon.
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On this day in 1987, a barge carrying nearly seven million pounds of trash set sail from Islip, New York, and spent the next five months looking for somewhere to dump it.
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On this day in 1788, a fire sparked in the home of a Spanish military treasurer consumed roughly eighty percent of the city of New Orleans.
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On this day in 1925, the deadliest tornado in U.S. history claimed the lives of 695 people.
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On this day in 1762, one of New York City’s oldest traditions began when the first St. Patrick’s Day parade was held in lower Manhattan.
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On this day in 1190, the entire Jewish community of York was attacked by a mob while taking refuge in the city’s royal castle.
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On this day in 1892, Jesse Reno received a patent for what would later become the world's first working escalator.
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On this day in 1950, the Federal Bureau of Investigation debuted the “Ten Most Wanted Fugitives” list.
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On this day in 1958, an Air Force B-47 bomber mistakenly dropped a nuclear weapon on a rural family farm in Mars Bluff, South Carolina.
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On this day in 1893, the New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts had to cancel its upcoming first graduation when the only member of the …
On this day in 1985, a civic group in Tyler, Texas, put up the first Adopt-A-Highway sign.
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On this day in 1910, French aviator Raymonde de Laroche became the first woman in the world to earn an official pilot’s license.
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On this day in 1923, Robert Frost’s poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” was published in New Republic magazine.
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On this day in 1899, the German pharmaceutical company Bayer was granted a patent for its Aspirin pain reliever.
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On this day in 1922, at age 62, famous sharpshooter Annie Oakley set a new record for women’s trap shooting.
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On this day in 1966, in a personality profile about John Lennon, the musician was quoted as saying The Beatles were “more popular than Jesus.”
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On this day in 1855, the U.S. Army received funding for what later became known as the Camel Corps, a program that tested the utility of camels in the country’s southwestern territories.
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On this day in 1903, The Women’s Hotel opened its doors as the only hotel in New York City to provide lodging exclusively for professional women.
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On this day in 1978, shortly before midnight, two men dug up the grave of silent film legend Charlie Chaplin and stole his body.
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On this day in 1883, one of the earliest vaudeville theaters in the United States opened on the second floor of the Gaiety Museum in Boston, Massachusetts.
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On this day in 1872, Charlotte E. Ray became the first black woman in the United States to receive a law degree.
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On this day in 1945, at the stroke of midnight, the U.S. federal government instituted a nationwide curfew on nightlife.
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On this day in 1814, the first batch of coins to be minted in Australia was distributed for use in the penal colony of New South Wales.
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On this day in 1989, nine passengers were killed on a flight from Hawaii to Auckland when the plane’s cargo door swung open in mid-flight.
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On this day in 1885, prison authorities in Exeter, England, tried and failed to hang a prisoner.
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On this day in 1861, after losing a bet, Edward Payson Weston embarked on a 478-mile walk from Boston to Washington D.C.
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On this day in 1950, an international competition was held between an American town and an English town to see who could run a race the fastest while …
On this day in 1927, legendary actor Sidney Poitier was born in Miami, Florida.
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On this day in 1986, actor Yul Brynner appeared in an anti-smoking public service announcement, four months after passing away from lung cancer.
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On this day in 1930, a dairy cow named Elm Farm Ollie became the first of her species to travel by airplane.
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On this day in 1972, the 15,007,034th Volkswagen Beetle rolled off the assembly line in Germany, making it the most highly produced car in the world.
On this day in 1968, the first official 911 call was made in Haleyville, Alabama.
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On this day in 1965, the red maple leaf flag was raised for the first time as the national flag of Canada.
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On this day in 1991, psychological horror classic The Silence of the Lambs made its theatrical debut.
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On this day in 1960, France detonated its first atomic bomb to become the world’s fourth nuclear power.
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On this day in 1817, Argentine general José Francisco de San Martín led his troops to victory at the Battle of Chacabuco, marking a pivotal moment in the fight for Chilean independence.
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On this day in 1958, Ruth Carol Taylor became the first ever African American flight attendant when she operated a flight from Ithaca to New York …
On this day in 1897, The New York Times’ slogan, “All the News That’s Fit to Print,” appeared on the paper’s front page for the first time.
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On this day in 1886, President Grover Cleveland sent 300 U.S. troops to Seattle, Washington, in an effort to put down an anti-Chinese riot that had erupted two days earlier.
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On this day in 1986, Anthony “Spud” Webb, the shortest player in the NBA at the time, won first place at a slam dunk contest in Dallas, Texas.
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On this day in 1845, an Irish visitor to the British Museum in London purposely destroyed a 2,000-year-old Roman vase.
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On this day in 1932, a dogsled racing event was featured at the Winter Olympic Games for the first time.
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On this day in 1953, to the delight of millions in the United Kingdom, the wartime rationing of candy and chocolate was lifted after nearly eleven …
On this day in 1974, a 19-year-old college student named Patty Hearst was abducted at gunpoint from her apartment in Berkeley, California.
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On this day in 1998, twenty civilians were killed when a US military jet severed the cable of a ski lift while flying recklessly low in the Italian Alps.
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On this day in 1887, Groundhog Day was celebrated for the first time at Gobbler’s Knob in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania.
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On this day in 1861, delegates of the people of Texas voted to adopt an ordinance of secession, making Texas the seventh state to secede from the Union.
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On this day in 1961, a specially trained chimpanzee named Ham became the first primate to travel into space.
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On this day in 1933, radio western “The Lone Ranger” was broadcast for the first time from the WXYZ radio station in Detroit, Michigan.
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On this day in 1820, following a decades-long struggle with mental illness, King George III died at Windsor Castle after a reign of almost 60 years.
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On this day in 1958, at precisely 1:58 pm, the LEGO Group filed the patent application for a new kind of building system that would forever change …
On this day in 1924, the embalmed body of Vladimir Ilych Lenin, communist revolutionary and founder of the Soviet Union, was put on public display in …
On this day in 1905, a 3,106-carat diamond was discovered at the Premier Mine in Pretoria, South Africa.
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On this day in 1979, Robert Williams, an assembly line worker at a Ford casting plant in Flat Rock, Michigan, was killed on the job by a robotic arm.
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On this day in 1972, a former soldier in the Japanese Imperial Army was discovered hiding in the jungles of Guam, unaware that World War II had ended …
On this day in 1957, the Wham-O toy company produced its first batch of plastic, flying discs — now known to fans of all ages as Frisbees.
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On this day in 1881, an ancient Egyptian obelisk, also known as Cleopatra’s Needle, was installed in Central Park, just behind the Metropolitan …
On this day in 1865, a Union Army Colonel turned oil tycoon used a makeshift torpedo to increase the flow of fossil fuels from a well.
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On this day in 1971, Motown legend Marvin Gaye released the powerful hit single “What’s Going On.”
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On this day in 1929, a horned lizard named Old Rip died of pneumonia after allegedly surviving 31 years sealed in the cornerstone of the Eastland, Texas courthouse.
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On this day in 1943, Claude R. Wickard, the Secretary of Agriculture and head of the War Food Administration, banned the sale of pre-sliced bread in …
On this day in 1950, a group of armed robbers stole more than $2 million from the Brink’s Armored Car depot in Boston, Massachusetts.
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On this day in 1605, the first half of Miguel de Cervantes' landmark novel Don Quixote was published in Spain.
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On this day in 1870, political cartoonist Thomas Nast first used the donkey as a symbol for the Democratic Party in a cartoon titled “A Live Jackass …
On this day in 1690, German instrument maker Johann Christoph Denner created the world’s first clarinet.
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On this day in 1939, a series of fires converged and swept rapidly across large areas of Victoria, Australia, leaving a widespread trail of death and destruction.
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On this day in 1908, French radio pioneer Gustave Ferrié transmitted the first long-distance message ever sent from the Eiffel Tower.
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On this day in 1569, in a public square outside Old St Paul’s Cathedral in London, the drawing began for the first state-run lottery in English …
On this day in 1984, fast food restaurant chain Wendy’s released its first commercial featuring the famous “Where’s the beef?” catchphrase.
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On this day in 1493, Italian explorer Christopher Columbus recorded a sighting of three “mermaids” while sailing near what is now the Dominican …
On this day in 1867, the U.S. Congress passed the District of Columbia Suffrage Bill, granting African American men the right to vote for the first …
On this day in 1610, Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei made the first recorded sighting of the planet Jupiter’s moons.
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On this day in 1907, Dr. Maria Montessori opened a new kind of school in an impoverished neighborhood in Rome.
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On this day in 1980, “Rapper’s Delight” by the Sugarhill Gang became the first hip hop song ever to break into the Billboard Top 40.
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On this day in 1990, an overcrowded passenger train slammed into a parked freight train at a railway station in the Sindh province of Pakistan.
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On this day in 1946, William Joyce, better known to the British as Lord Haw-Haw, was put to death for betraying his country on behalf of Nazi Germany.
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On this day in 1974, President Richard Nixon established a maximum speed limit of 55 miles per hour on every highway in the United States.
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On this day in 1959, musician Johnny Cash rang in the new year by performing live at San Quentin State Prison in California.
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On this day in 1853, natural history artist and sculptor Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins hosted a New Year’s Eve dinner party inside a full-scale model …
On this day in 1986, a British mining tradition came to an end when legislation officially ordered that all live canaries be released from the nation’s coal mines.
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On this day in 1851, retired sea captain Thomas Sullivan helped establish the first YMCA in the United States in Boston.
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On this day in 1734, Rob Roy MacGregor, a Scottish bandit turned folk hero, died at his home in the village of Balquidder.
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On this day in 1850, King Kamehameha III established and joined the Honolulu Fire Department, the first in the Hawaiian Islands and the only one in …
On this day in 1946, notorious gangster Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel opened the glamorous Flamingo Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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On this day in 1924, screenwriter and television producer Rod Serling was born in Syracuse, New York.
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On this day in 1923, President Calvin Coolidge pushed a button to light the first National Christmas Tree of the United States.
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On this day in 1888, Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh mutilated his own left ear with a razor blade while living in Arles, France.
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On this day in 1956, for the first time ever, a live gorilla was born in captivity.
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On this day in 1944, Walt Disney’s seventh animated feature, The Three Caballeros, had its world premiere in Mexico City.
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On this day in 1995, Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II sent a letter to her son Prince Charles and his wife Princess Diana, urging the couple to get a divorce.
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On this day in 1917, the first four teams of the newly-formed National Hockey League took to the ice for the first time.
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On this day in 1966, Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! aired for the very first time on CBS.
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On this day in 1892, Vogue magazine, a journal of high society and fashion, released its inaugural issue.
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On this day in 1920, at 7:06pm, a massive earthquake wreaked havoc on the isolated Gansu province in north-central China.
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On this day in 1944, American bandleader Glenn Miller went missing while flying over the English Channel aboard a military aircraft bound for France.
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On this day in 1985, Wilma Mankiller took office as principal chief of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma.
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On this day in 1776, Continental Army General Charles Lee surrendered to British forces after being caught off guard at a tavern in Basking Ridge, New Jersey.
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On this day in 1913, Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa portrait was recovered from a hotel room in Florence, two years after being stolen from the Louvre …
On this day in 1844, a 29-year-old dentist named Horace Wells pioneered the use of nitrous oxide in dental procedures by testing the gas on himself.
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On this day in 1830, American poet Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts.
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On this day in 1965, A Charlie Brown Christmas aired for the very first time on CBS.
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On this day in 1949, the defeated Nationalist forces of the Republic of China established a new capital on the island of present-day Taiwan.
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On this day in 1972, five hours after launching from the Kennedy Space Center, the crew aboard the Apollo 17 spacecraft captured a rare image of the …
On this day in 1877, at his lab in Menlo Park, New Jersey, inventor Thomas Edison made the first recording on his newly completed phonograph.
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On this day in 1791, Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died in Vienna at the age of 35.
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On this day in 1961, the director of exhibitions at New York’s Museum of Modern Art realized that a picture had been hanging upside down for the past 57 days.
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On this day in 1979, at a concert for the British rock band The Who, eleven people were crushed to death by a crowd of overeager fans trying to get …
On this day in 1867, British author Charles Dickens began his first American reading tour at Tremont Temple in Boston, Massachusetts.
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On this day in 1959, twelve nations signed the Antarctic Treaty, which prohibited military activity on the continent and ensured it would be used …
On this day in 1966, the east Caribbean island of Barbados gained its independence from the United Kingdom.
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On this day in 1775, physician and amateur chemist James Jay invented a new kind of invisible ink, which was later put to use in the American War of Independence.
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On this day in 1895, the first American auto race took place in Chicago, Illinois, with six racers competing in custom, handcrafted cars.
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On this day in 1868, at dawn, Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer led a surprise attack on a peaceful Cheyenne village along the Washita River in what …
On this day in 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a bill officially declaring that the Thanksgiving holiday would occur every year on the …
On this day in 1952, “The Moustrap,” a murder-mystery play by Agatha Christie, made its London debut at the Ambassadors Theatre.
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On this day in 1642, Dutch explorer Abel Tasman recorded the first European sighting of the island now known as Tasmania.
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On this day in 1889, an early forerunner of the modern jukebox was installed for public use at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco, California.
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On this day in 1968, during a turbulent year for race relations in America, actors William Shatner and Nichelle Nichols shared a prominent kiss on an …
On this day in 1934, at 17-years-old, Ella Fitzgerald became the first female performer to win Amateur Night at the Apollo Theater in Harlem.
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On this day in 1923, prolific inventor and entrepreneur Garrett Morgan received the patent for a traffic light signal of his own design.
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On this day in 1990, The National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences rescinded the Grammy Award for Best New Artist from pop duo Milli Vanilli.
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On this day in 1307, a legend was born when a Swiss farmer and skilled hunter named William Tell shot an apple off his son’s head with a crossbow.
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On this day in 1968, football fans got an unwelcome surprise when a televised game between the New York Jets and the Oakland Raiders was interrupted in its final minutes by a made-for-TV movie adaptation of Heidi.
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On this day in 1979, Paul McCartney released his quirky seasonal classic “Wonderful Christmastime.”
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On this day in 1953, Ada White of the Indiana Textbook Commission alleged that textbook writers were presenting the story of Robin Hood in a pro-communist light.
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On this day in 1666, English diarist and politician Samuel Pepys wrote the first known description of a blood transfusion.
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On this day in 1974, nuclear whistle-blower Karen Silkwood was killed in a one-car crash under mysterious circumstances.
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On this day in 1946, the controversial Disney movie Song of the South premiered at the Fox Theater in Atlanta, Georgia.
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On this day in 1933, at age 18, jazz legend Billie Holiday released her first hit song, “Riffin’ the Scotch”.
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On this day in 1903, Alabama native Mary Anderson was awarded a patent for her early design of windshield wipers.
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On this day in 1983, Alfred “Freddy” Heineken, CEO of the Heineken brewery, was abducted at gunpoint outside the company’s headquarters in Amsterdam.
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On this day in 1972, Home Box Office, or HBO, began broadcasting for the first time.
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On this day in 1800, the police chief of Paris issued an order making it illegal for women to wear pants in public.
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On this day in 1528, Spanish explorer Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca became the first European to set foot on land that would later become the state of …
On this day in 1935, Parker Brothers begins selling Monopoly, a board game based on the real estate of Atlantic City, New Jersey.
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On this day in 1918, at the tail end of the First World War, British poet Wilfred Owen was killed in action during an assault on a German-held canal …
On this day in 1906, at an international conference held in Berlin, SOS was chosen as the officially recognized distress call for ships at sea.
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On this day in 1947, Howard Hughes pilots the H-4 Hercules, also known as the “Spruce Goose”, on its first and only flight.
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On this day in 1945, Ebony magazine, a journal chronicling the lives of African Americans, released its inaugural issue.
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On this day in 1926, in Room 401 of Grace Hospital in Detroit, Harry Houdini dies of complications from a ruptured appendix.
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On this day in 1991, after days of build-up, a devastating storm reached peak intensity as it battered the North Atlantic.
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On this day in 1929, in an event known as Black Tuesday, the United States stock market crashed, wiping out the savings of thousands of investors and erasing $100 billion from the nation’s economy.
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On this day in 1846, a blizzard traps the ill-fated Donner Party in a high mountain pass in California.
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On this day in 1966, It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, aired for the very first time on CBS.
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On this day in 1948, an ominous, yellow fog descends on the town of Donora, Pennsylvania.
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John Carpenter’s seminal slasher film Halloween premieres at the AMC Empire theater in Kansas City, Missouri.
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On this day in 1901, a 63-year-old teacher named Annie Edson Taylor became the first person to ride over the edge of Niagara Falls in a barrel.
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On this day in 1959, the parody-singing, polka-playing musician known as “Weird Al” was born.
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On this day in 1797, French balloonist André-Jacques Garnerin descended 3,200 feet through the skies of Paris, becoming the first person to float safely to the ground using a frameless parachute.
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On this day in 1966, an avalanche of coal waste swept through the village of Aberfan in South Wales, claiming the lives of 144 people.
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On this day in 1962, America’s first fully automated post office began service in Providence, Rhode Island.
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On this day in 1901, the popular marching song “Pomp and Circumstance” was performed live for the very first time — but not at a graduation.
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On this day in 1773, the renowned poet Phillis Wheatley was freed from slavery.
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On this day in 1906, a German shoemaker named Friedrich Wilhelm Voigt impersonated an army officer and tricked a group of soldiers into helping him …
On this day in 1923, young cartoonist Walt Disney and his big brother Roy founded the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio in Hollywood, California.
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On this day in 1860, a young girl named Grace Bedell wrote a letter to Abraham Lincoln, urging him to grow a beard before the upcoming election.
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On this day in 1975, Ronald DeFeo Jr. stood trial for the brutal killing of his six family members — a crime known today as the Amityville murders.
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On this day in 1958, a marmalade-loving bear cub appeared for the first time when A Bear Called Paddington was published.
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On this day in 1609, the original version of the popular children’s nursery rhyme “Three Blind Mice” was published for the first time in London.
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On this day in 1975, sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live broadcast its first episode live from Studio 8H in Rockefeller Center.
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On this day in 1845, the United States Naval Academy opened its doors in Annapolis, Maryland, with a class of 50 midshipmen and seven professors.
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On this day in 1992, a meteorite the size of a bowling ball crashed into a parked Chevy Malibu in a suburb of Peekskill, New York.
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On this day in 1873, in response to the horrific treatment of female inmates at unisex prisons, the state of Indiana established the country’s first prison exclusively for women.
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On this day in 1982, the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats opened at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York City.
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On this day in 1961, in a letter to the Committee on Civil Defense, President John F. Kennedy advised American families to build fallout shelters as protection against a possible nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union.
On this day in 1969, just before 11pm, the first episode of the groundbreaking comedy series Monty Python's Flying Circus premiered in the United Kingdom.
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On this day in 1955, in a surprising upset, the Brooklyn Dodgers won the World Series, beating the New York Yankees 2-0.
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On this day in 1992, at the end of her performance on Saturday Night Live, Irish singer-songwriter Sinéad O’Connor shocked the audience and viewers …
On this day in 1851, a French occultist named Jacques Benoît gave the first -- and last -- demonstration of his new invention: a snail-powered …
On this day in 1942, Simon & Schuster published the first dozen titles in the long-running Little Golden Books series.
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On this day in 1822, Joseph Marion Hernández became the first Hispanic member of the United States Congress.
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On this day in 1982, four people in the greater Chicago area died after unknowingly ingesting Tylenol that had been laced with cyanide.
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On this day in 1885, an angry crowd of more than 2,000 people marched through the streets of Montreal after the city announced a mandatory vaccination program to fight the smallpox epidemic.
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On this day, Rachel Carson in 1962, a science writer and former marine biologist, published her landmark book, Silent Spring.
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On this day in 1904, New Zealand issued a government proclamation making it illegal to harm a beloved, wild dolphin named Pelorus Jack or any member …
On this day in 1962, a new exhibit opened at the Pasadena Art Museum in southern California, marking what’s believed to be the very first museum showing of Pop art.
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On this day in 622, the prophet Muhammad completed his Hegira, or “flight,” from the city of Mecca to what is now known as Medina.
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On this day in 1944, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt defended the reputation of his dog, who had recently been the subject of a political attack.
On this day in 1985, nearly 80,000 people gathered in the rain to watch the first-ever Farm Aid concert at a university stadium in Champaign, Illinois.
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On this day in 1937, the first edition of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, went on sale in British bookstores.
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On this day in 1519, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan set sail with a crew of 270 sailors.on what would ultimately become the first successful …
On this day in 1893, the Governor of New Zealand signed a landmark piece of legislation that gave women the right to vote in parliamentary elections.
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On this day in 1899, musician Scott Joplin was granted the copyright for a song he wrote called the “Maple Leaf Rag.”
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On this day in 1859, failed Gold Rush-era businessman named Joshua Norton became the first self-proclaimed emperor of the Untied States.
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On this day in 1869, legendary golfer Tom Morris Junior scored the first hole-in-one ever reported.
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At the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, boxer Muhammad Ali defeated Leon Spinks in a fight for the heavyweight championship.
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Fresh from his victory over Russian forces at the Battle of Borodino, Napoleon Bonaparte and his Grand Armée marched triumphantly into the city of …
In New York City, a group of teenage boys grabbed the straw hats of some factory workers. stomped them flat on the sidewalk, and then ran like mad.
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Four teenagers from the nearby village of Montignac, France, discovered the Cave of Lascaux and the more than 2,000 ancient drawings that adorn its walls.
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California native Florence Chadwick prevailed against dense fog, heavy winds, and frigid water to become the first woman to swim across the English Channel in both directions.
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At the edge of the town of Lattimer, Pennsylvania, eighty-six deputies under the command of Sheriff James Martin opened fire on a crowd of unarmed, immigrant coal miners who were on strike.
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A college student named Alexander Twilight received his bachelor’s degree, becoming the first person of African descent to achieve this honor in the …
On this day in 1930, a new comic strip appeared in American newspapers introducing readers to Blondie Boopadoop, better known today as Blondie Bumstead or just plain Blondie.
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On this day in 1996, shortly after 11:00pm, actor and recording artist Tupac Shakur was shot multiple times in Las Vegas while driving to a night …
On this day in 1651, after fleeing for his life following his defeat at the Battle of Worcester, Charles II, the King of Scotland and rightful Kinf …
On this day in 1976, The Muppet Show, created by American puppeteer and filmmaker Jim Henson, made its world premiere on ITV stations throughout the United Kingdom.
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On this day in 1888, American entrepreneur George Eastman received a patent for the world's first camera designed to use rolls of film.
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On this day in 1964, US President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the Wilderness Act.
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On this day in 1967, Paddy Roy Bates, a former British Army major turned pirate radio broadcaster, declared that the abandoned naval base he'd been occupying for the past 9 months was now a sovereign micronation: The …
On this day in 1878, a woman named Emma Nutt reported to work at the Edwin Holmes telephone dispatch company in Boston, Massachusetts, and in doing …
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On this day in 1908, an explosion occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Russia that was likely caused by a meteorite or comet bursting. / At 11:59 p.m. and 60 seconds, a leap second was added to Coordinated …
On this day in 1520, Aztec emperor Moctezuma died, either at the hands of Spaniards or Aztecs unhappy with his rule. / On this day in 1613, the Globe …
On this day in 1968, New York City police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar, sparking nights of riots that became a major moment of resistance in …
On this day in 1912, writer, social worker, teacher, and diplomat E.R. Braithwaite was born. / On this day in 1844, Joseph Smith, the leader of the Latter Day Saint movement, was murdered alongside his brother Hyrum by …
On this day in 1893 or 1903, blues musician Big Bill Broonzy was born. / The Winnipeg General Strike officially ended when the strike leaders called it off.
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Charles-François Thibault took three photos during the June Days uprising on this day and the following in 1848. Two of them became the first photos …
On this day in 1374, a dancing mania outbreak began in Aachen, Germany. / On this day in 1932, Khana Ratsadon, or the People’s Party, overthrew the …
The bloodiest battle in the revolution to overthrow Victoriano Huerta -- the Battle of Zacatecas, or La Toma de Zacatecas -- took place on this day …
On this day in history, the Roman Inquisition sentenced Galileo Galilei for being "vehemently suspect of heresy." / On this day in 1947, science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler was born.
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On this day in 1893, the Ferris Wheel debuted at the World's Fair in Chicago. / On this day in 1905, philosopher and writer Jean-Paul Sartre was born.
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On this day in 1865, Major General Gordon Granger announced the abolition of slavery in Galveston, Texas. The day is now commemorated as Juneteenth. …
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On this day in 1963, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to fly into space. / On this day in 1858, Abraham Lincoln gave his …
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On this day in 1971, the occupation of Alcatraz by the Indians of All Tribes ended when federal marshals removed the Native Americans who remained on the island. / On this day in 1837, a riot broke out in Boston when a …
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On this day, Paul Blobel -- leader of the Aktion 1005 operation to get rid of evidence of Nazi mass murders -- was executed. / On this day in 1917, …
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On this day in 1669, English naval administrator Samuel Pepys wrote his last diary entry. / On this day in 1578, the Roman catacombs were rediscovered by accident.
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On this day in 1953, Nepalese sherpa Tenzing Norgay and climber Edmund Hillary became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, the highest mountain above sea level. / On this day in 1967, the Republic of …
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On this day in 1914, dancer and Lindy Hop innovator Frankie Manning was born. / On this day in 1897, the novel "Dracula" was published.
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On this day in 1963, the Organization of African Unity was founded in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. / On this day in 1925, Mexican writer Rosario Castellanos was born.
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On this day in 1956, the first Eurovision Song Contest took place in Lugano, Switzerland. / On this day in 1940, a group of Stalinist agents attempted to assassinate Leon Trotsky. Less than three months later, another …
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On this day in 1930, playwright and activist Lorraine Hansberry was born in Chicago. / On this day in 1780, the sky in New England and parts of Canada turned unusually dark in an event remembered as the "Dark Day."
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On this day in 1902, the Antikythera mechanism was discovered. / On this day in 1953, aviator Jackie Cochran became the first woman to fly faster than the speed of sound.
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On this day in 1875, the first Kentucky Derby was held in Louisville. / On this day in 1954, groundwork began on the CERN site at Meyrin in Geneva, Switzerland.
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On this day in 1929, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences held its first Academy Awards ceremony. / On this day in 1966, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issued the May 16 Notification, …
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On this day in 1948, the State of Israel was created. / On this day in 1878, a suit was brought against Daniel Spofford in Salem, Massachusetts, for allegedly practicing mesmerism on Lucretia Brown.
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On this day in 1893, the Kinetoscope had its first public demonstration at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. / On this day in 1671, Thomas Blood attempted to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.
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On this day in 1919, thousands of students gathered at Tiananmen Square in Beijing to protest the Paris Peace Conference. / On this day in 1886, a …
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On this day in 1963, West Indians in Bristol, England, boycotted the Bristol Omnibus Company for its refusal to hire people of color as bus crew. / …
On this day in 1854, the Ashmun Institute, now called Lincoln University, was chartered as a college for Black men. / On this day in 1992, riots …
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On this day in 1865, the steamboat Sultana exploded, killing an estimate of nearly 2,000 people. / On this day in 1882, writer and literary editor …
On this day in 1986, a chemical explosion in a nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Soviet Ukraine triggered one of the worst nuclear disasters ever. / On this day in 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley …
On this day in 1953, Watson and Crick's article on their discovery of the structure of DNA was published in the journal Nature. / On this day in 1917, American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald was born.
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On this day in 1985, Coca-Cola launched New Coke, the reformulated version of its flagship drink. Coke drinkers did not respond well to the new …
On this day in 1954, the Army-McCarthy Senate hearings began which resulted in the end of the McCarthy era. / On this day in 1915, Germany released …
On this day in 1966, members of the gay rights organization the Mattachine Society staged a "sip-in" to protest gay people being refused service at bars. / On this day in 1934, the Daily Mail published a photo of what …
On this day in 1968, Conservative MP gave an anti-immigration speech that became known as the "Rivers of Blood" speech. / On this day in 1946, the …
Oliver Haugh, who had been convicted of killing his family, was executed by electric chair on this day in 1907. / On this day in 1861, a riot broke out in Baltimore, Maryland, between Confederate sympathizers and state …
On this day in 1688, four Quakers in Germantown, Pennsylvania, authored a petition against slavery. / On this day in 1980, the colony of Southern …
On this day in 1917, neurologist Constantin von Economo announced the probable spread of a viral disease, encephalitis lethargica, at a spread of a …
Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, a famous 18th-century artist who would go on to paint 30 portraits of Queen Marie Antoinette, was born in Paris on …
On this day in 1989, the death of reformer Hu Yaobang sparked pro-democracy protests in China. / On this day in 1970, the crew of Apollo 13 set a …
On this day in 1912, stewardess Violet Jessop escaped the sinking Titanic on a lifeboat. / On this day in 1816, the largest slave uprising in …
One of the deadliest racial incidents during the Reconstruction Era happened on this day in 1873, when a massacre broke out in the aftermath of a controversial election. / On this day in 1953, the CIA authorized the …
On this day in 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin orbited Earth once, earning him the title of the first person to travel in space. / On this day in 1988, the OncoMouse was patented in the U.S.
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On this day in 1979, Ugandan dictator Idi Admin was deposed and fled the country. / On this day in 1899, chemist Percy Lavon Julian was born.
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The Statute of Anne, widely recognized the first full copyright law, went into force on this day in 1710. / On this day in 1815, Mount Tambora …
On this day in 1921, Mary Winston Jackson was born in Hampton, Virginia. She would go on to become NASA's first Black female engineer. / On this day …
On this day in 1820, the now-famous sculpture known as the Venus de Milo was uncovered on the Aegean island of Melos. / On this day in 1905, …
On this day in 1994, the Rwandan military and Hutu militia groups began killing Tutsis and moderate Hutu politicians, inciting a genocide that lasted …
On this day in 1846, Dred and Harriet Scott, an enslaved husband and wife, filed petitions to sue for their freedom in the St. Louis Circuit Court. / On this day in 1917, artist and writer Leonora Carrington was born in …
On this day in 1614, Pocahontas married colonist John Rolfe. / On this day in 1958, the peaks of an underwater mountain called Ripple Rock were …
On this day in 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his Beyond Vietnam speech, denouncing the war in Vietnam. / On this day in 1828, Scottish writer Margaret Oliphant was born.
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On this day in 1860, the Pony Express mail service was founded. / On this day in 1948, leftists launched an uprising on Jeju Island in South Korea.
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On this day in 1979, an accidental anthrax leak in a microbiology facility in Sverdlovsk in the Soviet Union caused dozens of people to fall ill. The …
On this day in 1960, the first TV picture from space was taken by the TIROS-1 weather satellite. / On this day in 1940, environmental and political …
It's the last day of women's history month, and it's our last special Sunday episode celebrating women's contributions to society. Today, we welcome Professor Nora Gilbert, who speaks with me about the ways Motion …
Crawford Long, a doctor in Georgia, became the first to use inhaled ether anesthesia in surgery on this day in 1842. / On this day in 1791, the French National Assembly accepted a proposal by the French Academy of …
On this day in 1857, a 29-year-old sepoy named Mangal Pandey attacked two British officers, which set off more than a year long rebellion. / On this …
On this day in 1949, British astronomer Fred Hoyle coined the term "big bang." / On this day in 1979, a failure in a reactor at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station led to a partial meltdown.
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On this day in 1915, domestic cook Mary Mallon was quarantined for the second, and final, time on North Brother Island for being a typhoid carrier. / On this day in 1964, a 9.2 magnitude earthquake hit Alaska.
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On this day in 1812, a headline in the Boston Gazette read "The Gerry-mander", accompanied by a satirical illustration of the district that Massachusetts governor Elbridge Gerry lived in. / On this day in 1888, Swedish …
On this day in 1911, the Triangle Shirtwaist Company factory caught fire, and more than 100 workers died. / On this day in 1655, Christiaan Huygens first observed Saturn's largest moon, Titan.
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Today, Anney Reese from the podcasts Stuff Mom Never Told You and Savor joins me to talk about the 1921 Women's Olympiad. / On this day in 1989, the …
On this day in 1849, an enslaved man named Henry Brown packed himself up in a box and was shipped to Pennsylvania, a free state. / On this day in 1942, historian and activist Walter Rodney was born.
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On this day in 1916, Chinese emperor Yuan Shikai abdicated the throne and announced he would resume his presidency. / Anney and Samantha from the …
On this day in 1963, the maximum-security prison Alcatraz closed. / On this day in 1983, students in Arrabah in West Bank began getting symptoms of an unidentified illness.
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On this day in 1928, Fred Rogers of "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" fame was born. / On this day in 1924, the Virginia Sterilization Act, allowing the sterilization of people in state institutions, was approved.
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On this day in 1935, a petty theft in a S.H. Kress store and rumors of a Black Puerto Rican boy's death led to an all-out riot in Harlem. / On this day in 1882, the cornerstone of the Sagrada Família was laid.
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On this day in 1990, two thieves disguised as police officers broke into the Gardner Museum in Boston and stole millions of dollars worth of art that …
Labor and civil rights movement leader Bayard Rustin was born on this day in 1912. / On this day in 1968, the chief of the ecology and epidemiology …
On this day in 1968, hundreds of Vietnamese civilians were killed by U.S. forces during the Vietnam War. / On this day in 1792, Gustav III of Sweden was shot by a conspirator.
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On this day in 44 B.C.E., Julius Caesar was assassinated. / On this day in 1978, the last of significant unit of Somali troops withdrew from Ogaden.
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On this day in 1889, Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte became the first Native American woman in the U.S. to receive a medical degree. / On this day in …
On this day in 1988, protests at Gallaudet University in support of naming the school's first deaf president ended. Dr. I. King Jordan, a deaf man, …
On this day in 1930, Gandhi and dozens of his followers set out on the Salt March to protest the salt tax and the British Raj. / On this day in 1912, …
The first public basketball game took place on this day in 1892. / On this day in 1918, the first case of the Spanish flu was reported in the U.S.
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Today on the show, we celebrate Women's History Month by honoring the life and work of Lillian Wald with special guest Marjorie Feld, who wrote the book "Lillian Wald: A Biography." / On this day in 1906, an explosion …
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On this day in 1917, the February Revolution began in Russia. / On this day in 1957, the Suez Canal was reopened after being closed for several …
On this day in 1965, about 600 people set out from Selma, Alabama, to begin a 50-mile march to Montgomery. But not long after they left, law …
Cassie Chadwick was a career con artist who claimed to be Andrew Carnegie's daughter. On this day in 1905, her trial began. / On this day in 1869, Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev presented the first periodic table.
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On this day in 1770, a brawl broke out in Boston and turned into a deadly fight. The fight, which became known as the Boston Massacre, helped pave …
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On this day in 1882, a man named Roderick Maclean attempted to assassinate Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. It was the eighth and last time …
On this day in 1932, Charles Lindbergh Jr., the son of aviator Charles Lindbergh and Anne Lindbergh, was kidnapped. / On this day in 1790, the first U.S. census was authorized by Congress.
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On this day in 1874, a man who claimed to be the heir of the Tichborne estate was found guilty of perjury. / On this day in 1986, Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was assassinated.
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On this day in 1932, the journal Nature published a letter by English physicist James Chadwick that detailed his possible discovery of the neutron. / On this day in 1973, a group of Oglala Lakota and members of the …
On this day in 1917, the Original Dixieland Jass Band made the first jazz recording. / On this day in 1909, Kinemacolor was first screened to the …
On this day in 1870, Hiram Revels became the first African-American U.S. senator. / On this day in 1986, Corazon Aquino became president of the …
On this day in 1803, the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Marbury v. Madison was decided, establishing judicial review. / On this day in 1864, Rebecca Lee Crumpler passed her final oral exams at the New England Female …
On this day in 1954, polio vaccine trials began. / On this day in 1944, the Stalinist regime began deporting the Chechens and Ingush into remote …
On this day in 1943, White rose members Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl, and Christoph Probst were executed for passing out anti-Nazi pamphlets. / On this …
On this day in 1965, Black nationalist leader Malcolm X was assassinated in New York City. / On this day in 1933, singer and musician Nina Simone was …
On this day in 1902, renowned photographer Ansel Adams was born. / On this day in 1805, American abolitionist and women's rights advocate Angelina …
Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. / On this day in 1963, "The Feminine Mystique" by Betty Friedan was published.
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On this day in 1930, junior astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovered that Pluto was a planet. / On this day in 1934, writer, activist, and feminist Audre Lorde was born.
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On this day in 1913, the Armory Show, an exhibition showcasing modern art by hundreds of American and European artists, opened in New York City. / On …
On this day in 1959, Fidel Castro was sworn in as the prime minister of Cuba. / On this day in 1953, the Swedish company ASEA created synthetic diamonds.
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On this day in 1796, Australia's first bushranger, John "Black" Caesar, died. / On this day in 1954, U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed legislation approving the Distant Early Warning Line, a network of radar …
On this day in 1876, inventors Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray both filed patent documents for their telephone designs, starting a years-long controversy. / On this day in 1949, miners in Quebec led a strike for …
On this day in 1692, soldiers brutally killed members of the Clan MacDonald of Glencoe after staying in the MacDonalds' homes for nearly two weeks. / …
On this day in 1909, an interracial group of American leaders met in New York to call for an organization that would fight for African American civil …
On this day in 1916, anarchist and activist Emma Goldman was arrested for distributing information on birth control. / On this day in 1938, the BBC …
On this day in 1355, riots broke out in Oxford, England, when a couple of university students incited a pub brawl over bad wine. / On this day in 1996, the IBM computer Deep Blue won its first game against a world chess …
On this day in 1907, thousands of suffragists marched from Hyde Park to Exeter Hall in London in what became known as the Mud March. / On this day in 1909, singer, actress, and dancer Carmen Miranda was born in Portugal.
On this day in 1887, U.S. President Grover Cleveland signed the Dawes General Allotment Act into law. / On this day in 1909, Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announced his invention of Bakelite to the public.
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On this day in 1926, the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History launched Negro History Week, which was later extended to Black History …
Maori chiefs and representatives of the British Crown signed the Treaty of Waitangi on this day in 1840. / On this day in 1820, the American …
The New Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg opened to the public on this day in 1852. / On this day in 1958, the U.S. Air Force lost a nuclear bomb in the waters near Tybee Island, off the coast of Georgia.
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Constantin von Tischendorf identified the Codex Sinaiticus, or Sinai Bible, on this day in 1859. / On this day in 1974, twelve people were killed in a bombing on the M62 motorway in northern England.
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On this day in 1972, the deadliest blizzard ever recorded started in Iran. / On this day in 1953, Portuguese landowners and colonial officials killed …
Alexander Selkirk had been stranded on an island in the South Pacific for over four years. On this day in 1709, he was rescued. / On this day in 1922, “Ulysses," a novel by Irish writer James Joyce, was first published …
The Greensboro sit-ins began on this day in 1960. / On this day in 1902, poet Langston Hughes was born.
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The Battle of George Square riots broke out in Glasgow, Scotland, on this day in 1919. / On this day in 1939, Jewish Polish teenager Renia Spiegel …
The Beatles played their last public show on a rooftop in London on this day in 1969. / On this day in 1703, a group of ronin, or samurai without a master, avenged the death of their master by killing Kira Yoshinaka.
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On this day in 1886, German engineer Karl Benz applied for a patent for his Motorwagen. / On this day in 1845, Edgar Allan Poe's narrative poem "The Raven" was first published.
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"Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen was originally published on this day in 1813. / On this day in 1671, Panama City was destroyed by fire after Henry Morgan and a gang of buccaneers sacked the city.
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Soviet forces liberated the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz on this day in 1945. / On this day in 1912, Norwegian philosopher Arne Næss was born.
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On this day in 1700, a massive earthquake struck off the Pacific Northwest coast in North America. / On this day in 1808, William Bligh, the Governor of New South Wales, was deposed by a military coup.
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On this day in 1890, journalist Nellie Bly ended her 72-day trip around the world. / On this day in 1924, the first ever Winter Olympic Games began in Chamonix, France.
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Ballerina Maria Tallchief was born on this day in 1925. / On this day in 1935, Krueger Brewing Company introduced canned beer.
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On this day in 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to get a medical degree from a medical school. / On this day in 1556, the deadliest …
On this day in 1925, Dr. Curtis Welch sent an urgent telegram in an effort to stop a diphtheria epidemic in Nome, Alaska. / On this day in 1984, a "1984"-inspired ad introducing the Apple Macintosh played during the …
The Irish War of Independence began on this day in 1919. / On this day in 1840, Sophia Jex-Blake, the first female doctor to practice in Scotland, was born.
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The Iran Hostage Crisis ended on this day in 1981, minutes after the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan. / On this day in 1839, the Battle of Yungay, the decisive battle of the War of the Confederation between …
The German ambassador to Mexico received a coded telegram from German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmerman on this day in 1917. / On this day in 1977, U.S. President Gerald Ford pardoned Iva Toguri D'Aquino, also known as …
Gilles Garnier, the Werewolf of Dole, was convicted of lycanthropy on this day in 1573. / On this day in 1983, Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals were …
Businessmen aided by U.S. troops overthrew Queen Lili'uokalani of Hawaii on this day in 1893. / On this day in 1794, Elizabeth Bennett underwent the …
The 18th Amendment to the U.S. constitution was ratified on this day in 1919, prohibiting the sale, manufacture and transport of alcohol. / On this …
The Boston Molasses Flood took place on this day in 1919. / On this day in 1850, Russian mathematician Sofya Kovalevskaya was born.
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George Wallace was inaugurated as governor of Alabama on this day in 1963, giving his infamous "Segregation Now, Segregation Forever" speech. / On this day in 1963, "The Bell Jar," the only novel poet Sylvia Plath …
The Nika Riots began in Constantinople on this day in 532. / On this day in 1874, a riot started in Tompkins Square Park in Manhattan after police …
The Schoolhouse Blizzard took place on this day in 1888. / On this day in 1964, a group of insurgents overthrew the government of the sultan of …
The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Hernandez v. Texas on this day in 1954. / On this day in 1879, the Anglo-War began when the British …
Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon on this day in 49 BCE. / On this day in 1927, the silent science-fiction film "Metropolis" premiered in Berlin.
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The first modern circus performance took place on this day in 1768. / On this day in 1992, the discovery of two exoplanets was announced in the journal Nature.
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Karl M. Baer was legally recognized as male on this day in 1907. He had been assigned female at birth. / On this day in 1811, the German Coast …
Marian Anderson became the first Black performer to take the stage at the Metropolitan Opera on this day in 1955. / On this day in 1979, Vietnamese …
The Night of the Big Wind began on this day in 1839. / On this day in 1912, German geophysicist and meteorologist Alfred Wegener first presented his …
King C. Gillette was born on this day in 1855. / On this day in 1893, blues and folk musician Elizabeth Cotten was born near Chapel Hill, North …
Topsy the Elephant was electrocuted on this day in 1903. / On this day in 1809, French educator Louis Braille, namesake of the Braille reading and writing system, was born.
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Lucretia Mott was born on this day in 1793. / On this day in 1848, Black American merchant Joseph Jenkins Roberts was sworn in as the first president of Liberia.
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A new planet, called Vulcan, was announced on this day in 1860. / On this day in 1942, thirty-three members of a Nazi spy ring headed by Frederick …
Lorenzo de' Medici was born on this day in 1449. / On this day in 1818, Mary Shelley's debut novel, "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus," was first published.
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The ship carrying Theodosia Burr Alston disappeared on this day in 1812. / On this day in 1953, Democrat, Tammany Hall operative, and civil rights …
The Iroquois Theater in Chicago burned on this day in 1903. / On this day in 1924, Edwin Hubble published his observations on the existence of other galaxies for review at an upcoming meeting of the American …
A group of Lakota Sioux were surrounded and a tragic firefight erupted on this day in 1890. / On this day in 1996, the Guatemalan Civil War ended …
Auguste and Louis Lumière charged 1 franc admission to see several of their films on this day in 1895. / On this day in 1903, jazz musician Earl Hines, considered by many to be the father of modern jazz piano, was born.
Carry Nation destroyed the Carey Hotel's bar as a Temperance protest on this day in 1900. / On this day in 1512, the Laws of Burgos, a set of laws …
The pan-African holiday Kwanzaa, created by Maulana Karenga, was celebrated for the first time beginning this day in 1966. / On this day in 1867, …
The comet that Edmond Halley had calculated to return appeared as in the night sky as predicted on this day in 1758. / On this day in 1831, the …
Joseph Mohr and Franz Gruber performed "Stille Nacht" for the first time at a Christmas Eve mass in Austria on this day in 1818. / On this day in 1826, rowdy cadets at West Point incited a drunken riot known as the …
Richard Herrick received a kidney from his twin brother on this day in 1954. / On this day in 1972, survivors who were stranded in the Andes Mountains after their flight crashed were rescued.
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Alfred Dreyfus was wrongfully convicted of selling military secrets to Germany on this day in 1894. / On this day in1885, Itō Hirobumi became the …
A bomb exploded aboard Pan Am Flight 103 on this day in 1988. / On this day in 1826, rebels in the Republic of Fredonia signed their Declaration of Independence from Mexico.
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South Carolina seceded from the Union on this day in 1860. / On this day in 1987, a passenger ferry called Doña Paz collided with an oil tanker, …
Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" was published for the first time on this day in 1843. / On this day in 1946, the First Indochina War began.
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The "discovery" of the Piltdown Man was announced on this day in 1912. / On this day in 1892, Tchaikovsky's now-famous ballet "The Nutcracker" premiered.
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The observance of Saturnalia begins on December 17, although we don't know precisely which year the first Saturnalia was observed. / On this day in …
American colonists in Boston protested British rule with the Boston Tea Party incident on this day in 1773. / On this day in 755, Chinese General An …
Sitting Bull, the Hunkpapa Lakota leader and seminal Native American figure, was killed at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation on this day in 1890. …
Roald Amundsen and his expedition became the first people to reach the South Pole, beating Robert Falcon Scott's expedition, on this day in 1911. / …
Ibn Battuta, one of the most accomplished travelers of the medieval Islamic world, completed his travelogue known as the Rihla, or Journey, on this day in 1355. / On this day, Ella Baker - an organizer in the Civil …
The Oaks Colliery exploded on this day in 1866. / On this day in 1899, Dr. George F. Grant, a dentist, received the first ever patent for a golf tee.
Louis XVI was indicted for treason on this day in 1792. / On this day in 1978, a group of robbers affiliated with organized crime stole around $6 …
Japan's 300 Million Yen Robbery took place on this day in 1968. / On this day in 1907, riots incited by pro-vivisection medical students in London peaked. The conflict centered around the vivisection of a brown dog, its …
The Cretan Autonomous State was established on this day in 1898 under the Julian calendar. By the Gregorian calendar, it was December 21. / On this …
Christina of Sweden was born on this day in 1626. In the new-style calendar, she was born Dec. 18. / On this day, French sculptor Camille Claudel was …
Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on this day in 1941, bringing the United States into World War II. / On this day in 1963, instant replay debuted …
The Halifax Disaster occurred on this day in 1917. / On this day in 1912, the now-iconic bust of Nefertiti was unearthed in Egypt.
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The Mary Celeste was spotted adrift on this day in 1872. / On this day in 1952, a toxic smog that killed thousands of people descended on London.
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Rainer Maria Rilke was born on this day in 1875. / On this day in 1865, Edith Cavell - a nurse who helped Allied soldiers escape Belgium during World …
The trial of the Kapenguria Six began on this day in 1952. / On this day in 1854, miners seeking reforms in Victoria, Australia, rebelled against …
The Monroe Doctrine was articulated in an address to Congress on this day in 1823. / On this day in 1984, a leak in a storage tank at a pesticide …
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus on this day in 1955. / On this day in 1952, the New York Daily News announced Christine Jorgensen's gender confirmation surgery.
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Elizabeth I delivered her "Golden Speech" on this day in 1601. / On this day in 1954, a meteorite hit and bruised a woman in Alabama.
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The Zong Massacre began on this day in 1781. / On this day in 1847, a group of Cayuse tribespeople killed 13 people at the Whitman Mission, as they believed that physician and religious leader Marcus Whitman was …
Anne Bonny and Mary Read were convicted of piracy on this day in 1720. / On this day in 1967, astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell became the first …
George Moscone and Harvey Milk were assassinated on this day in 1978. / On this day in 1810, Theodore Hook the sent a multitude of goods and service …
Archaeologists entered the tomb of King Tutankhamun on this day in 1922. / On this day in 1977, a Southern Television news broadcast was interrupted …
The Mirabal Sisters were assassinated in the Dominican Republic on this day in 1960. / On this day in 1975, Robert S. Ledley was awarded the first …
A man known as D.B. Cooper parachuted out of an airplane and was never seen again on this day in 1971. / On this day in 1914, physical therapist and inventor Bessie Blount was born.
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The St. John Slave Insurrection began on this day in 1733. / On this day in 1883, Mexican painter José Clemente Orozco was born.
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Blackbeard was killed on this day in 1718. / Cutty Sark, one of the last tea clippers built, was launched from Dumbarton on this day in 1869.
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The Mayflower Compact was signed on this day in 1620. / On this day in 1953, the Piltdown Man, supposedly the remains of a missing evolutionary link …
A whale sank the Essex on this day in 1820. / On this day in 1695, Afro-Brazilian anti-resistance leader Zumbi was executed by the Portuguese.
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Indira Gandhi was born on this day in 1917. / On this day in 1969, Brazilian soccer player Pelé scored his thousandth goal - though some have disputed the accuracy of this claim.
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"Steamboat Willie" was released on this day in 1928. / At noon on this day in 1883, railroads launched a system of standardized time zones in the U.S. and Canada.
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H.H. Holmes was arrested on this day in 1894. / On this day, Penobscot dancer, writer, and actress Molly Spotted Elk was born.
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The Battle of Cajamarca, also called the Massacre of Cajamarca, took place on this day in 1532. / On this day in 1938, Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann synthesized LSD.
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Sherman's March to the Sea began on this day in 1864. / On this day in 1889, Pedro II, Brazil's last emperor, was deposed.
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BBC began daily radio broadcasts on this day in 1922. / On this day in 1817, revolutionary spy Policarpa Salavarrieta was executed for treason.
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One of history's many Bloody Sundays took place on this day in 1887 in London. / On this day in 1906, industrial designer Eva Zeisel was born.
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Baha'u'llah, founder of the Baha'i faith, was born on this day in 1817. / On this day in 1970, the deadliest tropical cyclone in recorded history made landfall in East Pakistan.
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The armistice that ended the fighting in World War I was signed on this day in 1918. / On this day, Abul Kalam Azad -- a scholar and activist in the …
The Wilmington Coup began on this day in 1898. / On this day in 1945, the British retaliated against Indonesian nationaists in the Battle of Surabaya …
Kristallnacht began on this day in 1938. / On this day in 1965, a major electrical power failure sent parts of Ontario and the northeastern United States into darkness for up to 13 hours.
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Wilhelm Roentgen observed X-rays for the first time on this day in 1895. / On this day in 1892, workers in New Orleans went on a general strike.
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The Russian government was overthrown in the Bolshevik revolution on this day in 1917. This date is also noted as October 25, since Russia was using …
The United Nations condemned apartheid and asked member states to take action against South Africa on this day in 1962. / On this day in 1944, weapons-grade plutonium was created in B Reactor at the Hanford Site in the …
Shirley Chisholm was elected to Congress on this day in 1968. / On this day in 1857, investigative journalist and biographer Ida Tarbell was born in …
St. Clair's Defeat, also known as the Battle of the Thousand Slain, took place on this day in 1791. / On this day in 1956, former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and Senator Margaret Chase Smith debated each other as …
John Willis Menard was elected to Congress on this day in 1868. / On this day in 1793, writer and activist Olympe de Gouges was executed for sedition.
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Marie Antoinette was born on this day in 1755. / On this day in 1936, the BBC began broadcasting the first regular, high-definition TV service from …
The Sistine Chapel ceiling was revealed to the public for the first time on this day in 1512. / On this day in 1879, the Carlisle Indian Industrial …
Martin Luther posted his 95 theses on this day in 1517. / On this day in 1951, the zebra crossing, or white striped pedestrian crossing, was officially introduced in Slough, England.
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The radio broadcast of "War of the Worlds" took place on this day in 1938. / On this day in 1974, Muhammad Ali and George Foreman fought each other for the world heavyweight championship in Zaire in one of the most …
Sir Walter Raleigh was beheaded on this day in 1618. / On this day in 1940, thieves in broke into the American Museum of Natural History in New York …
The Czechoslovak Republic, or Czechoslovakia, was proclaimed on this day in 1918. / On this day in 1940, Greek Prime Minister Ioannis Metaxas …
Missouri Executive Order 44, also known as the Extermination Order, was issued on this day in 1838. / On this day in 1858, Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was born.
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The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral took place on this day in 1881. / On this day in 1985, Australia returned ownership of Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park to the Anangu people.
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The SS Princess Sophia sank on this day in 1918. / On this day in 1924, a letter sent from Grigory Zinoviev to the Communist Party of Britain was published in the British newspaper Daily Mail. The document is now …
Ninety percent of Iceland's women went on strike in the Women's Day Off on this day in 1975.
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The War of Jenkin's Ear, known in Spain as Guerra del Asiento, began on this day in 1739. / On this day in 1911, Italian Captain Carlo Piazza flew the first aerial reconnaissance mission in a Blériot XI during the …
The Great Disappointment of the Millerites took place on this day in 1844. / On this day in 1966, The Supremes became the first all-female group with a number one album - "The Supremes A' Go-Go" - on the Billboard 200.
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The first modern planetarium opened in Munich on this day in 1923. / On this day in 1956, Mau Mau leader Dedan Kimathi was captured, signaling the effective end of the Mau Mau Uprising.
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The firings and resignations known as the Saturday Night Massacre took place on this day in 1973, during the Watergate scandal. / On this day in …
Members of the military attacked the National Palace in Guatemala on this day in 1944, during the Guatemalan Revolution. / On this day in 1909, …
The Battle of Mabila took place on this day in 1540. / On this day in 1954, Texas Instruments announced the invention of the first commercial transistor radio, the Regency TR-1.
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The London Beer Flood took place on this day in 1814.
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Athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised their fists in protest at the Olympic Games on this day in 1968. / On this day in 1834, the Palace of Westminster was destroyed in a fire.
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Mata Hari was executed for espionage on this day in 1917. / On this day in 1582, Pope Gregory XIII introduced the Gregorian calendar, which was …
The trial of Mary, Queen of Scots began on this day in 1586. / On this day in 1947, American test pilot Chuck Yeager became the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound.
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The revival of modern Hebrew began on this day in 1881, when Eliezer Ben-Yehuda began speaking it exclusively among friends and family. / On this day in 1917, a crowd of thousands of people gathered in Fátima, Portugal, …
An iron lung was used for the first time on this day in 1928. / On this day in 1810, the first Oktoberfest began after the marriage of Crown Prince Ludwig and Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen.
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The Second Vatican Council, also known as Vatican II, opened on this day in 1962. / This day in 1899 marks the beginning of the Second Boer War, a conflict between the British Empire and the Boer states of the South …
Assassin Lyudmila Pavlichenko died on this day in 1974. / On this day in 1911, an uprising against the Qing government began in Wuchang in China.
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Che Guevara was executed on this day in 1967. / On this day in 1855, American inventor Joshua Stoddard was issued a patent for the calliope.
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Alvin York led a group of soldiers to capture a German machine gun nest on this day in 1918. / On this day in 1892, Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva was …
Desmond Tutu was born on this day in 1931. / On this day in 1916, the Georgia Tech vs. Cumberland College football game in Atlanta ended with a score …
The Reno Brothers staged the first peacetime train robbery in the U.S. on this day in 1866. / On this day in 1908, Austria-Hungary announced that it was annexing Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Women marched on Versailles on this day in 1789. / On this day in 1936, people protesting unemployment and calling for the establishment of work in Jarrow, England, began their march to London.
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The Orient Express started its service from Paris to Istanbul, then often called Constantinople, on this day in 1883. / On this day, the Soviets …
Italy invaded the Ethiopian Empire, also known as Abyssinia, on this day in 1935. / Tula, leader of the Curaçao Slave Revolt, was executed on this …
The Perejil, or Parsley, Massacre began on this day in 1937. / "The Obedience of a Christian Man," a book by English Protestant author William Tyndale, was published on this day in 1528.
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Mao Zedong proclaimed the formation of the People's Republic of China on this day in 1949. / On this day in 1965, a group of Indonesian National Armed Forces members calling themselves the 30 September Movement …
The Boeing 747 was introduced on this day in 1968. / On this day in 1207, Persian poet and scholar Rumi was born.
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Rudolf Diesel disappeared on this day in 1913, which is also marked as the date of his death. / On this day in 1957, an explosion in a Soviet …
Suleiman's siege of Vienna began on this day in 1529. / On this day in 1924, pioneering jazz pianist Bud Powell was born.
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Johnny Appleseed was born on this day in 1774. / Pioneering cartoonist and animator was born on this day sometime in the mid-1800s, though the exact year is unknown.
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The Treaty of York formalized the border between England and Scotland on this day in 1237. / On this day in 1886, Peter "Black Prince" Jackson won the Australian Heavyweight Boxing Championship, becoming the first Black …
Benedict Arnold escaped on this day in 1780. / The last indigenous ruler of the Inca, Túpac Amaru, was executed by the Spanish on this day in 1572.
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Victoria Woodhull, first woman to run for U.S. president, was born on this day in 1838. / On this day in 1889, Nintendo was founded in Japan as a …
Shaka, founder of the Zulu Empire, was killed on this day in 1828. / On this day in 1939, Junko Tabei, a Japanese mountaineer and the first woman to …
Alexandria of Bavaria died on this day in 1875. / On this day in 1897, the now-famous editorial answering Virginia O'Hanlon's question about whether Santa Claus exists was printed in the New York Sun.
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The Battle of the Sexes tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs took place on this day in 1973. / The inaugural Cannes Film Festival opened in France on this day in 1946.
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Hikers discovered Ötzi the Iceman on this day in 1991. / On this day in 1957, the first fully contained underground detonation took place at the …
Constantine the Great united the Roman Empire on this day in 324. / On this day in 1895, Daniel David Palmer performed what's considered the first chiropractic adjustment.
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The Camp David Accords were signed on this day in 1978. / On this day in 1925, Mexican artist Frida Kahlo was seriously injured in a bus accident that altered the course of her life.
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The Grito de Dolores launched the Mexican War of Independence on this day in 1810. / On this day in 1979, the Strelzyk and Wetzel families escaped …
The Crash at Crush took place on this day in 1896. / On this day in 1963, the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, was bombed in an act of terrorism by white supremacists.
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U.S. President William McKinley died on this day in 1901, having been shot by an assassin on September 6. / On this day in 1921, Constance Baker Motley, the first Black woman to be named a federal court judge, was born.
Phineas Gage was struck through the skull with a tamping iron on this day in 1848. / On this day in 1922, a fire in Smyrna in Asia Minor -- …
Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett eloped on this day in 1846. / Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie was deposed by military coup on this day in 1974.
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Vivekananda gave a speech on Hinduism in Chicago on this day in 1893. / On this day in 1792, the Hope Diamond was stolen in the chaos of the French …
DNA fingerprinting was discovered on this day in 1984. / On this day in 1960, Ethiopian marathon runner Abebe Bikila set a world record for the marathon at the Olympics in Rome.
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The Attica Prison Uprising began on this day in 1971. / On this day in 1924, a strike organized by Filipino sugar plantation workers turned into a …
The Delano Grape Strike began on this day in 1965. / On this day in 1504, Michelangelo's David was unveiled to the public.
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Pirates raided the Ganj-i-Sawai on this day in 1695. / On this day in 1936, the last thylacine, aka Tasmanian tiger, died at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.
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The Candia Massacre began on this day in 1898. / On this day, jazz pioneer Buddy Bolden was born in New Orleans.
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"Hippie" was first used in print with its current meaning on this day in 1965. / On this day in 1945, Soviet cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko defected to Canada.
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A series of events known as the Peekskill Riots ended on this day in 1949. / On this day in 1882, Edison's Pearl Street Station in Manhattan began generating electricity.
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The Whitestone Hill Massacre occurred on this day in 1863. / This day in 1967 is known in Sweden as Dagen H, or H Day, the day that left-hand traffic in the country switched to right-hand traffic.
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The Great Fire of London began on this day in 1666. / On this day in 1885, white miners killed Chinese miners and looted and burned their homes in Rock Springs, Wyoming.
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An error during a crash dive led to a catastrophe aboard the submarine USS S-5 on this day in 1920. / On this day in 1969, the Free Officers Movement overthrew King Idris I, and Muammar Gaddafi assumed power.
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Mary Ann Nichols was murdered on this day in 1888, the first canonical victim of Jack the Ripper. / On this day in 1963, the prime minister of …
England's master gardener, Lancelot "Capability" Brown, was baptized on this day in 1716. / On this day in 1892, the steamship Moravia arrived in New …
Karl Heinrich Ulrichs publicly defended homosexuality at the Congress of German Jurists on this day in 1867, making him the first gay man to publicly speak on the topic of gay rights. / On this day in history, race car …
Emmett Till was murdered on this day in 1955. / On this day in history, one of the largest recorded geomagnetic storms, known as the Carrington event, began.
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The Battle of Ambos Nogales took place on this day in 1918. / On this day in 1883, the eruption of Krakatau reached its climax. It was one of the deadliest eruptions in modern history.
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The final articles of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen were adopted on this day in 1789, during the French Revolution. / Mother …
The Great Moon Hoax began on this day in 1835. / On this day in 1925, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters held its first meeting.
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Vesuvius destroyed Pompeii, Herculaneum and surrounding communities in a volcanic eruption on this day in the year 79. / On this day in 1972, Merlin …
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed on this day in 1927. / On this day in 1973, a bank robbery and hostage crisis in Stockholm, …
The First Geneva Convention was signed on this day in 1864. / On this day in 1910, the Japan-Korea Treaty of 1910 was signed, and Japan formally annexed Korea.
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The Haitian Revolution began on this day in 1791. / On this day in 1911, Vincenzo Peruggia stole the "Mona Lisa" from the Louvre museum.
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The crew of a ship called the White Lion traded several enslaved Africans for food and repairs on this day in 1619, often described as the beginning …
Inventor Philo Farnsworth was born on this day in 1906. / On this day in 1814, entrepreneur and abolitionist Mary Ellen Pleasant was born.
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The 19th Amendment was ratified on this day in 1920. / On this day in 1612, the Pendle witch trials began in England.
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Leo Frank was lynched on this day in 1915. / On this day in 1887, activist and journalist Marcus Garvey, namesake of the ideology of Garveyism, was …
The first transatlantic telegraph cable carried its first messages on this day in 1858. / On this day in 1927, an air race sponsored by James D. Dole …
India became independent from the British Empire on this day in 1947, an event that is also intrinsically connected to the independence of Pakistan and the partition of the two nations. / On this day in 1977, the radio …
The Mainz Psalter was published on this day in 1457. It was the second book printed with movable type in the West. / On this day in 1975, the cult …
Opha May Johnson became the first known woman to enlist in the U.S. Marine Corps on this day in 1918. / On this day in 1904, Tewa potter Margaret Tafoya was born.
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Isaac Singer patented his sewing machine on this day in 1851. / On this day in 1883, the last quagga died in a zoo in Amsterdam.
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Anne Lister wrote her first diary entry on this day in 1806. / On this day in 1965, the Watts Riots began in Los Angeles.
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The Pueblo Revolt began on this day in 1680. / On this day in 1793, the Louvre opened to the public as a museum.
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Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, philanthropist and wife of Alexander Hamilton, was born on this day in 1757. / On this day in 1173, the foundation stones for the Leaning Tower of Pisa were laid.
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The Battle of Amiens began on this day in 1918, starting the 100 Days Offensive that ended World War I. / On this day in 1988, massive strikes and protests broke out around Myanmar in opposition to the government.
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The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was passed on this day in 1964. / On this day in 1947, Thor Heyerdahl and his crew made it to the Raroia atoll in …
The United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on this day in 1945. / On this day in 1991, the first ever website was made publicly available.
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The Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASP, was formed on this day in 1943. / On this day in 1600, John Ruthven, 3rd earl of Gowrie, and his younger brother Alexander Ruthven were killed under mysterious circumstances.
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Lizzie Borden's parents were murdered on this day in 1892. / On this day, baseball player Herman "Germany" Schaefer stole first base from second base.
Jesse Owens won the first of his four gold medals at the Berlin Olympic Games on this day in 1936. / La Scala opera house was inaugurated on this day …
Hitler united both the chancellorship and presidency of Germany on this day in 1934. / On this day in 1874, scientist and women's rights activist Berta Lutz was born.
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Caroline Herschel became the first woman to discover a comet on this day in 1786. / On this day in 1911, cartoonist Jackie Ormes was born.
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Ferdinand and Isabella issued the Alhambra Decree on this day in 1492. / On this day, Germany targeted the Soviets' 588th Night Bomber Regiment, aka the Night Witches, with tracers and deployed night fighters.
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The Diggers' Republic of Klipdrift was founded in South Africa on this day in 1870. / On this day in 1511, artist, architect, and writer Giorgio Vasari was born.
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Confederate spy Belle Boyd was arrested in this day in 1862. / On this day in 1836, the Arc de Triomphe in Paris was inaugurated.
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Peru declared independence from Spain on this day in 1821. / On this day in 1866, children's author Beatrix Potter was born.
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Korean Armistice Signed - July 27, 1953 / On this day in 1794, members of the National Convention arrested Maximilien Robespierre and some of his …
Liberia Declared Independence - July 26, 1847 / On this day in 1887, "Unua Libro," the first book to describe the international language of …
The U.S. invaded Puerto Rico on this day in 1898, during the Spanish-American War. / On this day in 1978, Louise Joy Brown became the first person to be born through in vitro fertilization.
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The Eastland Disaster occurred in Chicago on this day in 1915. / On this day in 1889, cryptanalyst Agnes Meyer Driscoll was born.
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The Egyptian Revolution took place on this day in 1952. / On this day in 1903, the Ford Motor Company sold its first Model A.
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Selman Waksman, who is credited with developing streptomycin, was born on this day in 1888. / On this day in 1849, Jewish-American writer Emma Lazarus was born.
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John Scopes was found guilty of teaching evolution on this day in 1925. / On this day in 365 C.E., an earthquake off the coast of Crete triggered a …
The First Special Olympics began on this day in 1868. / On this day in 1969, Apollo 11 landed on the moon, making Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong the …
The Seneca Falls Convention convened in New York on this day in 1848. / On this day in 1919, race riots began in Washington, D.C., during the period …
The Great Fire of Rome began on this day in the year 64. / On this day in 1969, a cease-fire was called in the so-called Football War, or Soccer War, between El Salvador and Honduras.
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The Romanov family was executed on this day in 1918. / On this day in 1959, paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey discovered the skull of a hominin called …
Journalist and anti-lynching crusader Ida B. Wells-Barnett was born on this day in 1862. / On this day in 1854, Elizabeth Jennings was forcefully …
After roughly four centuries, the Spanish Inquisition was disbanded on this day in 1834. / On this day in 1864, Maggie Walker was born.
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Gertrude Bell, who helped shape modern Iraq, was born on this day in 1868. / On this day in 1933, Nazi Germany passed the Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring.
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The New York Draft Riots began on this day in 1863. / On this day in 1930, Uruguay hosted the first FIFA World Cup.
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The Bisbee Deportation took place on this day in 1917 in Bisbee, Arizona. / On this day in 1856, American filibuster William Walker set himself up as president of Nicaragua.
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Explorer Zheng He's first voyage began on this day in 1405. / On this day in 1897, S. A. Andrée, Nils Strindberg, and Knut Fraenkel began their …
Famed inventor Nikola Tesla was born on the day in 1856. / On this day 1902, Cuban writer and activist Nicolás Guillén was born.
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The Constitutionalist Revolution began on this day in 1932. / The Great Train Wreck of 1918 happened on this day when two trains in Nashville …
Jonathan Edwards' sermon 'Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God' was published on this day in 1741. / On this day in 1947, Roswell Army Air Field issued a press release saying a flying saucer had been found near Roswell, …
Joan of Arc was posthumously acquitted of heresy on this day in 1456. / On this day in 1928, the Chillicothe Baking Company sold the first …
Richard the Lionheart inherited the throne after the death of his father, on this day in 1189. / On this day, the Piper Alpha oil rig exploded and caught fire.
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The London Match Girls' Strike at the Bryant and May match factory began on this day in 1888. / On this day in 1996, the cloned sheep Dolly was born.
Walt Witman's 'Leaves of Grass' was published on this day in 1855. / On this day in 1997, Mars Pathfinder landed on Mars.
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The artifact known as the Phaistos Disc was discovered on this day in 1908. / On this day in 1938, the world speed record for steam locomotives was set when Mallard when 126 miles per hour.
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A rebellion took place aboard the slave ship Amistad on this day in 1839. / On this day in 1925, Congolese politician, Pan-Africanist, and …
Ignaz Semmelweis, known as the father of infection control, was born on this day in 1818. / On this day in 1960, Ghana was declared a republic, and …
At 11:59 p.m. and 60 seconds, a leap second was added to Coordinated Universal Time to synchronize clocks with Earth’s decelerating rotation.
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On this day in 1613, the Globe Theatre in London, famous for hosting performances of Shakespeare's plays, was destroyed in a fire.
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On this day in 1951, "The Amos 'n' Andy Show” premiered on CBS TV.
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On this day in 1844, Joseph Smith, the leader of the Latter Day Saint movement, was murdered alongside his brother Hyrum by a mob in Carthage, Illinois.
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The Winnipeg General Strike officially ended when the strike leaders called it off.
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On this day in 1978, the rainbow flag, made specifically to represent the LGBTQ community, was flown for the first time at the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade.
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On this day in 1932, Khana Ratsadon, or the People’s Party, overthrew the government of King Rama VII, ending 700 years of absolute monarchy under …
On this day in 1868, Christopher Latham Sholes, Samuel Soulé, and Carlos Glidden were awarded U.S. patent number 79,265 for their typewriter.
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On this day in 1947, science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler was born.
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On this day in 1905, philosopher and writer Jean-Paul Sartre was born.
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On this day in 1975, the film "Jaws" was released in the U.S. and Canada.
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On this day in 1917, revolutionary and politician Joshua Nkomo was born in Matebeleland in modern-day Zimbabwe.
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On this day in 1178 (on the Julian calendar), several monks from Canterbury reportedly saw the moon split into two and explode into flames.
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On this day in 1843, a clash between British immigrants and Maori known as the Wairau Incident took place on the South Island in New Zealand.
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On this day in 1858, Abraham Lincoln gave his "House Divided" speech in Springfield, Illinois, during his run for U.S. senator.
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On this day in 1938, Hungarian newspaper editor Laszlo Biro filed a British patent for the ballpoint pen.
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On this day in 1872, Parliament passed the Trade Unions Act in Canada, legalizing unions.
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On this day in 1971, the New York Times began publishing excerpts from the Pentagon Papers.
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On this day in 1892, writer and illustrator Djuna Barnes was born.
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On this day in 1837, a riot broke out in Boston when a fire company met an Irish funeral procession.
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On this day in 1783 a volcanic fissure in Iceland called Laki began erupting.
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On this day in 1917, poet Gwendolyn Brooks was born. Brooks was the first Black American writer to win a Pulitzer Prize.
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On this day in 1825, Kamehameha III becomes the third king of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
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On this day in 1878, revolutionary leader Pancho Villa was born in Mexico.
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On this day in 1913, suffragette Emily Davison was trampled by a horse at the Epsom Derby.
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On this day in 1897, blues singer and guitarist Memphis Minnie was born.
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On this day in 1966, NASA's lunar lander Surveyor 1 landed on the moon, marking the first time an American space probe made a successful soft-landing …
On this day in 1974, the Heimlich Maneuver was unveiled in an article in the Journal of Emergency Medicine.
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On this day in 1578, the Roman catacombs were rediscovered by accident.
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On this day in 1967, the Republic of Biafra declared its independence from Nigeria.
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On this day in 1453, Constantinople was captured by the Ottoman Empire, marking the end of the Byzantine Empire.
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On this day in 1831, abolitionist and religious leader Eliza Ann Gardner was born in New York.
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On this day in 1930, the Chrysler Building in Manhattan was completed.
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On this day in 1897, the novel "Dracula" was published.
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On this day in 1925, Mexican writer Rosario Castellanos was born.
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On this day in 1940, a group of Stalinist agents attempted to assassinate Leon Trotsky. Less than three months later, another Stalinist agent killed Trotsky.
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On this day in 1951, Tibet signed the Seventeen Point Agreement, which affirmed China's sovereignty over Tibet. There is controversy over the validity of the document and China's adherence to it.
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On this day in 1915, an explosive eruption of Lassen Peak in northern California devastated the areas around the volcano.
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On this day in 1917, a fire tore through the city of Atlanta, displacing around 10,000 people and destroying nearly 2,000 buildings.
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On this day in 1902, Cuba gained independence from the U.S. after years of U.S. military occupation following the Spanish-American War.
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On this day in 1780, the sky in New England and parts of Canada turned unusually dark in an event remembered as the "Dark Day."
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On this day in 1953, aviator Jackie Cochran became the first woman to fly faster than the speed of sound.
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On this day in 1954, groundwork began on the CERN site at Meyrin in Geneva, Switzerland.
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On this day in 1966, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issued the May 16 Notification, marking the start of the Cultural …
On this day in 1903, mathematician and archaeologist Maria Reiche was born. Throughout her life, Reiche was dedicated to studying the Nazca Lines.
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On this day in 1878, a suit was brought against Daniel Spofford in Salem, Massachusetts, for allegedly practicing mesmerism on Lucretia Brown.
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On this day in 1861, Australian amateur astronomer John Tebbutt first observed the Great Comet of 1861.
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On this day in 1941, civil engineer and inventor Konrad Zuse, who worked in Nazi Germany, unviled the first full functional, programmable computer.
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On this day in 1895, composer William Grant Still was born in Mississippi.
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On this day in 1919, a riot began when white sailors began attacking Black people in Charleston, South Carolina.
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On this day in 1671, Thomas Blood attempted to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.
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On this day in 1963, South Vietnamese soldiers and security forces fired into a crowd of unarmed Buddhist protesters, marking the start of the …
On this day in 1794, the Cult of the Supreme Being -- a cult established by Maximilien Robespierre -- was authorized by a decree of the National …
On this day in 1882, U.S. President Chester A. Arthur signed the Chinese Exclusion Act, which banned the immigration of Chinese laborers for 10 years, though Congress later extended it. Listen to the episode on the Rock …
On this day in 1905, the Stratton brothers' trial began in England. It was the first recorded murder trial in England to use fingerprints as evidence.
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On this day in 1886, a bomb set off at a peaceful labor protest in Chicago triggered a riot.
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On this day in 1868, the Edo period in Japan ended, and the Meiji Restoration began.
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On this day in 1964, a group of Chinese climbers summited Shishapangma, the 14th highest mountain in the world.
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Though it was officially published weeks later in two volumes, Carl Linnaeus's "Species Plantarum" was given the day of issue of May 1, 1753.
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On this day in 1961, the Soviet Union commissioned the K-19, a ballistic missile equipped nuclear submarine.
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On this day in 1992, riots erupted in Los Angeles in response to the acquittal of police officers charged with excessive force in the beating of …
On this day in 1789, acting lieutenant Fletcher Christian led a mutiny against Captain William Bligh on the HMS Bounty.
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On this day in 1882, writer and literary editor Jessie Redmon Fauset was born.
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On this day in 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis presented their opposing points about the scale of the universe in an event sometimes called “The Great Debate.”
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On this day in 1917, American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald was born.
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This day in 1914 is widely considered the beginning of the Armenian genocide, though Armenian massacres had occurred previously.
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On this day in 1516, the Reinheitsgebot, a Bavarian beer purity law, was adopted.
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On this day in 1915, Germany released chlorine gas during the Second Battle of Ypres, markin the first effective use of poison gas on the Western Front.
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On this day in 1934, the Daily Mail published a photo of what was allegedly the Loch Ness Monster.
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On this day in 1946, the League of Nations was dissolved.
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On this day in 1861, a riot broke out in Baltimore, Maryland, between Confederate sympathizers and state militia regiments on their way to Washington, D.C.
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On this day in 1980, the colony of Southern Rhodesia gained independence from Britain and became Zimbabwe.
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On this day in 1951, Peak District National Park was established.
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On this day in 1853, the Great Indian Peninsula Railway opened the first commercial passenger train service in India.
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On this day in 1970, the crew of Apollo 13 set a world record when they reached the farthest distance humans have ever been from Earth.
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On this day in 1816, the largest slave uprising in Barbados began.
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On this day in 1953, the CIA authorized the launch of the mind control program known as Project MKUltra.
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On this day in 1988, the OncoMouse was patented in the U.S.
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On this day in 1899, chemist Percy Lavon Julian was born.
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On this day in 1815, Mount Tambora produced one of the largest and deadliest eruptions in recorded history.
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On this day in 1816, the African Methodist Episcopal Church was formed when Richard Allen and Daniel Coker called Black Methodists to meet in Philadelphia.
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On this day in 1905, anti-apartheid activist Helen Joseph was born.
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On this day in 1963, Tito was proclaimed president for life of the newly renamed Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
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On this day in 1917, artist and writer Leonora Carrington was born in England.
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On this day in 1958, the peaks of an underwater mountain called Ripple Rock were destroyed in an explosion, so they would no longer pose a hazard to …
On this day in 1828, Scottish writer Margaret Oliphant was born.
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On this day in 1948, leftists launched an uprising on Jeju Island in South Korea.
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On this day in 1929, Irish mercenary Patrick Murphy unintentionally dropped two bombs over the border town of Naco, Arizona.
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On this day in 1940, environmental and political activist Wangari Maathai was born in Kenya.
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On this day in 1878, heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson was born.
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On this day in 1791, the French National Assembly accepted a proposal by the French Academy of Sciences to define the meter.
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On this day in 1947, Malagasy nationalists launched an uprising against the French colonial government in Madagascar.
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On this day in 1979, a failure in a reactor at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station led to a partial meltdown.
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On this day in 1964, a 9.2 magnitude earthquake hit Alaska.
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On this day in 1888, Swedish nurse Elsa Brändström was born in St. Petersburg.
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On this day in 1655, Christiaan Huygens first observed Saturn's largest moon, Titan.
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On this day in 1989, the oil tanker Exxon Valdez dumped 11 million gallons of oil into Prince William Sound.
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On this day in 1942, historian and activist Walter Rodney was born.
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Anney and Samantha from the podcast Stuff Mom Never Told You stop by the show to talk about religious rebel Anne Hutchinson, who was excommunicated …
On this day in 1983, students in Arrabah in West Bank began getting symptoms of an unidentified illness.
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On this day in 1924, the Virginia Sterilization Act, allowing the sterilization of people in state institutions, was approved.
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On this day in 1882, the cornerstone of the Sagrada Família was laid.
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On this day in 1965, cosmonaut Alexey Leonov completed the first spacewalk.
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On this day in 1968, the chief of the ecology and epidemiology branch of Dugway Proving Ground got a call saying thousands of sheep were found dead …
On this day in 1792, Gustav III of Sweden was shot by a conspirator.
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On this day in 1978, the last of significant unit of Somali troops withdrew from Ogaden.
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On this day in 1900, the Gold Standard Act went into effect, making gold the sole standard for redeeming paper money.
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On this day in 1697, the Mayan city of Nojpetén fell to Spanish troops.
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On this day in 1912, Juliette Gordon Low founded the Girl Scouts of the United States of America.
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On this day in 1918, the first case of the Spanish flu was reported in the U.S.
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On this day in 1906, an explosion and fire in a French mine killed 1,099 people, making it one of the deadliest mining disasters in history.
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On this day in 1916, the Battle of Columbus began as a raid that Pancho Villa led on the border town of Columbus, New Mexico.
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On this day in 1957, the Suez Canal was reopened after being closed for several months during the Suez Crisis.
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On this day in 1971, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman gave a speech in Dhaka encouraging people to prepare for a war for independence.
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On this day in 1869, Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev presented his periodic table.
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On this day in 1904, Nikola Tesla attempted to explain ball lightning in the publication Electrical World and Engineer.
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Singer, actor, and activist Miriam Makeba was born in South Africa.
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A group of American oil prospectors discovered a commercially viable source of petroleum near Dammam, Saudi Arabia.
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The supersonic airliner known as the Concorde took its first test flight on this day in 1969.
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On this day in 1790, the first U.S. census was authorized by Congress.
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On this day in 1940, Hattie McDaniel won an Academy Award for her role as Mammy in "Gone With the Wind."
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On this day in 1986, Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was assassinated.
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On this day in 1973, a group of Oglala Lakota and members of the American Indian Movement occupied Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
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On this day in 1909, Kinemacolor was first screen to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.
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On this day in 1986, Corazon Aquino became president of the Philippines, making her the first woman to hold the office.
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On this day in 1864, Rebecca Lee Crumpler passed her final oral exams at the New England Female Medical College, becoming the first Black woman in …
On this day in 1944, the Stalinist regime began deporting the Chechens and Ingush into remote areas of the Soviet Union.
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On this day in 1876, Native American writer and activist Zitkála-Šá was born.
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On this day in 1933, singer and musician Nina Simone was born in North Carolina.
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On this day in 1805, American abolitionist and women's rights advocate Angelina Grimké was born.
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On this day in 1963, "The Feminine Mystique" by Betty Friedan was published.
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On this day in 1934, writer, activist, and feminist Audre Lorde was born.
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On this day in 1838, Zulus killed Voortrekkers in the Weenen massacre.
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On this day in 1953, the Swedish company ASEA created synthetic diamonds.
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On this day in 1954, U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed legislation approving the Distant Early Warning Line, a network of radar stations built to detect Soviet bombers.
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On this day in 1949, miners in Quebec led a strike for better working conditions and wages.
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On this day in 1879, Indian poet and activist Sarojini Naidu was born.
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On this day in 1974, Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was arrested and charged with treason.
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On this day in 1938, the BBC broadcast the first known science fiction television program, "R.U.R."
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On this day in 1996, the IBM computer Deep Blue won its first game against a world chess champion.
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On this day in 1909, singer, actress, and dancer Carmen Miranda was born in Portugal.
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On this day in 1909, Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announced his invention of Bakelite to the public.
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On this day in 1497, followers of the Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola burned objects thought to incite sin in an event known as the Bonfire of …
On this day in 1820, the American Colonization Society organized a migration of freed enslaved people from the United States to Africa.
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On this day in 1958, the U.S. Air Force lost a nuclear bomb in the waters near Tybee Island, off the coast of Georgia.
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On this day in 1974, twelve people were killed in a bombing on the M62 motorway in northern England.
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On this day in 1953, Portuguese landowners and colonial officials killed hundreds of forros in São Tomé.
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On this day in 1922, “Ulysses," a novel by Irish writer James Joyce, was first published in its entirety.
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On this day in 1902, poet Langston Hughes was born.
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On this day in 1939, Jewish Polish teenager Renia Spiegel wrote the first entry in her diary.
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On this day in 1703, a group of ronin, or samurai without a master, avenged the death of their master by killing Kira Yoshinaka.
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On this day in 1845, Edgar Allan Poe's narrative poem "The Raven" was first published.
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On this day in 1671, Panama City was destroyed by fire after Henry Morgan and a gang of buccaneers sacked the city.
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On this day in 1912, Norwegian philosopher Arne Næss was born.
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On this day in 1808, William Bligh, the Governor of New South Wales, was deposed by a military coup.
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On this day in 1924, the first ever Winter Olympic Games began in Chamonix, France.
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On this day in 1935, Krueger Brewing Company introduced canned beer.
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On this day in 1556, the deadliest earthquake in recorded history hit Shaanxi province in China.
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On this day in 1984, a "1984"-inspired ad introducing the Apple Macintosh played during the Super Bowl.
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On this day in 1840, Sophia Jex-Blake, the first female doctor to practice in Scotland, was born.
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On this day in 1839, the Battle of Yungay, the decisive battle of the War of the Confederation between Chile and the Peruvian-Bolivian Confederation, …
On this day in 1977, U.S. President Gerald Ford pardoned Iva Toguri D'Aquino, also known as Tokyo Rose.
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On this day in 1983, Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals were returned to his children, 70 years after they were stripped from him.
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On this day in 1794, Elizabeth Bennett underwent the first recorded successful C section in the U.S.
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On this day in 1362, Saint Marcellus’ flood, also known as Grote Mandrenke, hit the British Isles, the Netherlands, northern Germany, and Denmark
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On this day in 1850, Russian mathematician Sofya Kovalevskaya was born.
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On this day in 1963, "The Bell Jar," the only novel poet Sylvia Plath wrote, was first published.
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On this day in 1874, a riot started in Tompkins Square Park in Manhattan after police overran a demonstration of thousands of unemployed people.
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On this day in 1964, a group of insurgents overthrew the government of the sultan of Zanzibar.
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On this day in 1879, the Anglo-War began when the British invaded Zululand.
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On this day in 1927, the silent science-fiction film "Metropolis" premiered in Berlin.
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On this day in 1992, the discovery of two exoplanets was announced in the journal Nature.
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On this day in 1811, the German Coast Uprising, a slave revolt in modern-day Louisiana, began.
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On this day in 1979, Vietnamese troops occupied Phnom Penh and overthrew Pol Pot's regime.
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On this day in 1912, German geophysicist and meteorologist Alfred Wegener first presented his hypothesis on continental drift in a public lecture.
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On this day in 1893, blues and folk musician Elizabeth Cotten was born near Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
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On this day in 1809, French educator Louis Braille, namesake of the Braille reading and writing system, was born.
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On this day in 1848, Black American merchant Joseph Jenkins Roberts was sworn in as the first president of Liberia.
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On this day in 1942, thirty-three members of a Nazi spy ring headed by Frederick Joubert Duquesne were sentenced to serve time in prison.
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On this day in 1818, Mary Shelley's debut novel, "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus," was first published.
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The ship carrying Theodosia Burr Alston disappeared on this day in 1812. There's more to the story in the October 17, 2017 episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class.
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On this day in 1953, Democrat, Tammany Hall operative, and civil rights advocate Hulan Jack was sworn in as the borough president of Manhattan.
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The Iroquois Theater in Chicago burned on this day in 1903. There's more detail in the December 8, 2014 episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class.
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On this day in 1924, Edwin Hubble published his observations on the existence of other galaxies for review at an upcoming meeting of the American Astronomical Society.
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A group of Lakota Sioux were surrounded and a tragic firefight erupted on this day in 1890. There's more detail in the August 10, 2009 episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class.
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On this day in 1996, the Guatemalan Civil War ended when the Guatemalan president and the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity signed peace …
Auguste and Louis Lumière charged 1 franc admission to see several of their films on this day in 1895. There's more detail in the November 27 and 29, 2017 episodes of Stuff You Missed in History Class.
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On this day in 1903, jazz musician Earl Hines, considered by many to be the father of modern jazz piano, was born.
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Carry Nation destroyed the Carey Hotel's bar as a Temperance protest on this day in 1900. There's more detail in the July 24 and 26, 2017 episodes of …
On this day in 1512, the Laws of Burgos, a set of laws regulating the relationship between Spaniards and indigenous people in the Americas, were …
The pan-African holiday Kwanzaa, created by Maulana Karenga, was celebrated for the first time beginning this day in 1966.
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On this day in 1867, Scottish mathematician and scientist Mary Somerville was born.
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The comet that Edmond Halley had calculated to return appeared as in the night sky as predicted on this day in 1758.
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On this day in 1831, the Baptist War, also known as the Christmas Rebellion, began in Jamaica.
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Joseph Mohr and Franz Gruber performed "Stille Nacht" for the first time at a Christmas Eve mass in Austria on this day in 1818.
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On this day in 1826, rowdy cadets at West Point incited a drunken riot known as the Eggnog Riot. Learn more about the incident in an episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class.
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Richard Herrick received a kidney from his twin brother on this day in 1954.
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On this day in 1972, survivors who were stranded in the Andes Mountains after their flight crashed were rescued.
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Alfred Dreyfus was wrongfully convicted of selling military secrets to Germany on this day in 1894.
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On this day in 1885, Itō Hirobumi became the first prime minister of Japan.
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A bomb exploded aboard Pan Am Flight 103 on this day in 1988.
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On this day in 1826, rebels in the Republic of Fredonia signed their Declaration of Independence from Mexico.
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South Carolina seceded from the Union on this day in 1860.
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On this day in 1987, a passenger ferry called Doña Paz collided with an oil tanker, causing the death of more than 4,000 people.
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Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" was published for the first time on this day in 1843.
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On this day in 1946, the First Indochina War began.
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The "discovery" of the Piltdown Man was announced on this day in 1912. There's more to the story in the December 26, 2016 episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class.
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On this day in 1892, the Tchaikovsky composed ballet, The Nutcracker, premiered in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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The observance of Saturnalia begins on December 17, although we don't know precisely which year the first Saturnalia was observed. There's more detail in the December 23, 2009 episode of Stuff You Missed in History …
On this day in 1790, the Aztec sun stone, a circular stone marked by carvings of calendar signs and images related to the Aztec creation myth, was …
American colonists in Boston protested British rule with the Boston Tea Party incident on this day in 1773.
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On this day in 755, Chinese General An Lushan proclaimed himself emperor, marking the beginning of the An Lushan Rebellion against the Tang dynasty.
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Sitting Bull, the Hunkpapa Lakota leader and seminal Native American figure, was killed at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation on this day in 1890.
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Filipino revolutionary Emilio Jacinto was born on this day in 1875.
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Roald Amundsen and his expedition became the first people to reach the South Pole, beating Robert Falcon Scott's expedition, on this day in 1911.
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On this day in 1948, two engineers from DuMont Laboratories received a patent for their cathode-ray tube amusement device.
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Ibn Battuta, one of the most accomplished travelers of the medieval Islamic world, completed his travelogue known as the Rihla, or Journey, on this day in 1355.
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On this day, Ella Baker - an organizer in the Civil Rights Movement who worked with the NAACP, SNCC, and SCLC - was born.
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The Oaks Colliery exploded on this day in 1866.
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On this day in 1899, Dr. George F. Grant, a dentist, received the first ever patent for a golf tee.
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Louis XVI was indicted for treason on this day in 1792. There's more detail in the November 19, 2008 episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class.
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On this day in 1978, a group of robbers affiliated with organized crime stole around $6 million in cash and jewelry from the JFK International …
Japan's 300 Million Yen Robbery took place on this day in 1968
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On this day in 1907, riots incited by pro-vivisection medical students in London peaked. The conflict centered around the vivisection of a brown dog, …
The Cretan Autonomous State was established on this day in 1898 under the Julian calendar. By the Gregorian calendar, it was December 21.
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On this day in 1979, members of the Global Commission for the Certification of Smallpox Eradication signed a statement that declared that smallpox had been eradicated worldwide.
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Christina of Sweden was born on this day in 1626. In the new-style calendar, she was born Dec. 18.
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On this day, French sculptor Camille Claudel was born.
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Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on this day in 1941, bringing the United States into World War II.
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On this day in 1963, instant replay debuted in the CBS broadcast of the Army-Navy college football game in Philadelphia.
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The Halifax Disaster occurred on this day in 1917. There's more on the tragedy in the December 19, 2011 episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class.
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On this day in 1912, the now-iconic bust of Nefertiti was unearthed in Egypt.
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The Mary Celeste was spotted adrift on this day in 1872. You can learn more in the January 24, 2013 episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class.
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On this day in 1952, a toxic smog that killed thousands of people descended on London. Click here to learn more about the incident in an episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class called "The Great London Smog."
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Rainer Maria Rilke was born on this day in 1875.
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On this day in 1865, Edith Cavell - a nurse who helped Allied soldiers escape Belgium during World War I - was born.
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The trial of the Kapenguria Six began on this day in 1952.
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On this day in 1854, miners seeking reforms in Victoria, Australia, rebelled against colonial authorities.
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The Monroe Doctrine was articulated in an address to Congress on this day in 1823.
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On this day in 1984, a leak in a storage tank at a pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, triggered one of the worst industrial disasters in the world.
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Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus on this day in 1955.
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On this day in 1952, the New York Daily News announced Christine Jorgensen's gender confirmation surgery.
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Elizabeth I delivered her "Golden Speech" on this day in 1601.
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On this day in 1954, a meteorite hit and bruised a woman in Alabama.
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The Zong Massacre began on this day in 1781.
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On this day in 1847, a group of Cayuse tribespeople killed 13 people at the Whitman Mission, as they believed that physician and religious leader Marcus Whitman was deliberately spreading measles.
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Anne Bonny and Mary Read were convicted of piracy on this day in 1720.
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On this day in 1967, astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell became the first person to detect a radio pulsar.
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George Moscone and Harvey Milk were assassinated on this day in 1978.
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On this day in 1810, Theodore Hook the sent a multitude of goods and service providers to the home of Mrs. Tottenham at 54 Berners Street in London …
Archaeologists entered the tomb of King Tutankhamun on this day in 1922. There's more to the story in the September 15, 2010 episode of Stuff You …
On this day in 1977, a Southern Television news broadcast was interrupted by a cryptic voice claiming to be an alien and advocating for peace on Earth.
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Mirabal Sisters Assassinated - Nov. 25, 1960The Mirabal Sisters were assassinated in the Dominican Republic on this day in 1960.
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On this day in 1975, Robert S. Ledley was awarded the first U.S. patent for a whole-body X-ray scanner.
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A man known as D.B. Cooper parachuted out of an airplane and was never seen again on this day in 1971. You can learn more in the October 3, 2011 episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class.
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On this day in 1914, physical therapist and inventor Bessie Blount was born.
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The St. John Slave Insurrection began on this day in 1733.
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On this day in 1883, Mexican painter José Clemente Orozco was born.
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Blackbeard was killed on this day in 1718. There's more to the story in the May 5, 2014 episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class.
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Cutty Sark, one of the last tea clippers built, was launched from Dumbarton on this day in 1869.
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The Mayflower Compact was signed on this day in 1620.
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On this day in 1953, the Piltdown Man, supposedly the remains of a missing evolutionary link between apes and humans, was revealed to be a hoax in …
A whale sank the Essex on this day in 1820. There's more in the Sep. 27, 2010 episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class.
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On this day in 1695, Afro-Brazilian anti-resistance leader Zumbi was executed by the Portuguese.
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Indira Gandhi was born on this day in 1917.
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On this day in 1969, Brazilian soccer player Pelé scored his thousandth goal - though some have disputed the accuracy of this claim.
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"Steamboat Willie" was released on this day in 1928.
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At noon on this day in 1883, railroads launched a system of standardized time zones in the U.S. and Canada.
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H.H. Holmes was arrested on this day in 1894.
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On this day, Penobscot dancer, writer, and actress Molly Spotted Elk was born.
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The Battle of Cajamarca, also called the Massacre of Cajamarca, took place on this day in 1532.
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On this day in 1938, Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann synthesized LSD.
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Sherman's March to the Sea began on this day in 1864.
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On this day in 1889, Pedro II, Brazil's last emperor, was deposed.
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BBC began daily radio broadcasts on this day in 1922.
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On this day in 1817, revolutionary spy Policarpa Salavarrieta was executed for treason.
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One of history's many Bloody Sundays took place on this day in 1887 in London.
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On this day in 1906, industrial designer Eva Zeisel was born.
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On this day in 1970, the deadliest tropical cyclone in recorded history made landfall in East Pakistan.
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On this day, Abul Kalam Azad -- a scholar and activist in the Indian Independence movement -- was born.
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On this day in 1945, the British retaliated against Indonesian nationaists in the Battle of Surabaya during the Indonesian National Revolution.
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On this day in 1965, a major electrical power failure sent parts of Ontario and the northeastern United States into darkness for up to 13 hours.
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On this day in 1892, workers in New Orleans went on a general strike.
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On this day in 1919, the Palmer Raids - which targeted radicals, communists, and anarchists in the U.S. - began.
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On this day in 1944, weapons-grade plutonium was created in B Reactor at the Hanford Site in the state of Washington.
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On this day in 1857, investigative journalist and biographer Ida Tarbell was born in Pennsylvania.
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On this day in 1956, former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and Senator Margaret Chase Smith debated each other in the first nationally televised presidential debate in the U.S.
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On this day in 1793, writer and activist Olympe de Gouges was executed for sedition.
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On this day in 1936, the BBC began broadcasting the first regular, high-definition TV service from Alexandra Palace in London.
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On this day in 1879, the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, an off-reservation school for the assimilation of Native Americans, opened in …
On this day in 1951, the zebra crossing, or white striped pedestrian crossing, was officially introduced in Slough, England.
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On this day in 1974, Muhammad Ali and George Foreman fought each other for the world heavyweight championship in Zaire in one of the most memorable boxing matches in history.
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On this day in 1940, thieves in broke into the American Museum of Natural History in New York and stole valuable gems, including the Star of India …
On this day in 1940, Greek Prime Minister Ioannis Metaxas rejected an ultimatum from Italy to allow Axis forces to occupy strategic sites in Greece.
On this day in 1858, Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was born. For a look at how Roosevelt faced his greatest foes, check out Mental Floss’s new podcast History Vs. here, or wherever you listen to podcasts.
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On this day in 1985, Australia returned ownership of Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park to the Anangu people.
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On this day in 1924, a letter sent from Grigory Zinoviev to the Communist Party of Britain was published in the British newspaper Daily Mail. The document is now believed to be a forgery.
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On this day in 1975, women in Iceland went on strike to protest their low wages and emphasize the value of women's work.
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On this day in 1911, Italian Captain Carlo Piazza flew the first aerial reconnaissance mission in a Blériot XI during the Italo-Turkish War.
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On this day in 1966, The Supremes became the first all-female group with a number one album - "The Supremes A' Go-Go" - on the Billboard 200.
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On this day in 1956, Mau Mau leader Dedan Kimathi was captured, signaling the effective end of the Mau Mau Uprising.
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On this day in 1951, a white football player for Oklahoma A&M assaulted a Black player for Drake University named Johnny Bright in an incident …
On this day in 1909, French nuclear chemist and discoverer of francium Marguerite Perey was born.
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On this day in 1954, Texas Instruments announced the invention of the first commercial transistor radio, the Regency TR-1.
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On this day in 1814, a flood of beer burst out of a London brewery, killing eight people and injuring others.
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On this day in 1834, the Palace of Westminster was destroyed in a fire.
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On this day in 1582, Pope Gregory XIII introduced the Gregorian calendar, which was created as a way to reform the Julian calendar.
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On this day in 1947, American test pilot Chuck Yeager became the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound.
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On this day in 1917, a crowd of thousands of people gathered in Fátima, Portugal, to witness a miracle, and many reported seeing unusual solar …
On this day in 1810, the first Oktoberfest began after the marriage of Crown Prince Ludwig and Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen.
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This day in 1899 marks the beginning of the Second Boer War, a conflict between the British Empire and the Boer states of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State.
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On this day in 1911, an uprising against the Qing government began in Wuchang in China.
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On this day in 1855, American inventor Joshua Stoddard was issued a patent for the calliope.
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On this day in 1892, Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva was born in Moscow.
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On this day in 1916, the Georgia Tech vs. Cumberland College football game in Atlanta ended with a score of 222-0, making it the most lopsided …
On this day in 1908, Austria-Hungary announced that it was annexing Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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On this day in 1936, people protesting unemployment and calling for the establishment of work in Jarrow, England, began their march to London.
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On this day, the Soviets launched Sputnik, which inspired scientists to begin using satellites to create navigation systems.
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Tula, leader of the Curaçao Slave Revolt, was executed on this day in 1795.
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"The Obedience of a Christian Man," a book by English Protestant author William Tyndale, was published on this day in 1528.
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On this day in 1965, a group of Indonesian National Armed Forces members calling themselves the 30 September Movement assassinated six high-ranking Indonesian army generals.
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On this day in 1207, Persian poet and scholar Rumi was born.
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On this day in 1957, an explosion in a Soviet plutonium-processing plant created fallout that contaminated thousands of square miles around the disaster site.
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On this day in 1975, an attempt to rob the Spaghetti House restaurant in London turned into a nearly week-long siege.
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On this day in 1924, pioneering jazz pianist Bud Powell was born.
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Pioneering cartoonist and animator was born on this day sometime in the mid-1800s, though the exact year is unknown. If you want to learn more about McCay, listen to the two-part episode of Stuff You Missed in History …
On this day in 1886, Peter "Black Prince" Jackson won the Australian Heavyweight Boxing Championship, becoming the first Black man to win a national boxing crown.
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The last indigenous ruler of the Inca, Túpac Amaru, was executed by the Spanish on this day in 1572.
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On this day in 1889, Nintendo was founded in Japan as a playing card company.
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On this day in 1939, Junko Tabei, a Japanese mountaineer and the first woman to summit Mount Everest, was born.
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On this day in 1897, the now-famous editorial answering Virginia O'Hanlon's question about whether Santa Claus exists was printed in the New York Sun.
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The first ever Canne Film Festival began in Canne, France
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The first fully contained underground detonation took place at a research center in Nevada.
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On this day in 1895, Daniel David Palmer performed what's considered the first chiropractic adjustment.
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On this day in 1925, Mexican artist Frida Kahlo was seriously injured in a bus accident that altered the course of her life.
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On this day in 1979, the Strelzyk and Wetzel families escaped from East Germany to West Germany in a homemade hot air balloon.
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On this day in 1963, the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, was bombed in an act of terrorism by white supremacists.
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On this day in 1921, Constance Baker Motley, the first Black woman to be named a federal court judge, was born.
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On this day in 1922, a fire in Smyrna in Asia Minor -- present-day İzmir, Turkey -- began blazing through the city.
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Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie was deposed on this day in 1974.
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On this day in 1792, the Hope Diamond was stolen.
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On this day in 1960, Ethiopian marathon runner Abebe Bikila set a world record for the marathon at the Olympics in Rome.
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On this day in 1924, a strike organized by Filipino sugar plantation workers turned into a massacre of Filipinos by local police.
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On this day in 1504, Michelangelo's David was unveiled to the public.
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On this day in 1936, the last thylacine, aka Tasmanian tiger, died at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.
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On this day, jazz pioneer Buddy Bolden was born in New Orleans. Learn more about Buddy in an episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class at …
On this day in 1945, Soviet cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko defected to Canada.
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On this day in 1882, Edison's Pearl Street Station in Manhattan began generating electricity.
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This day in 1967 is known in Sweden as Dagen H, or H Day, the day that left-hand traffic in the country switched to right-hand traffic.
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On this day in 1885, white miners killed Chinese miners and looted and burned their homes in Rock Springs, Wyoming.
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On this day in 1969, the Free Officers Movement overthrew King Idris I, and Muammar Gaddafi assumed power.
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On this day in 1963, the prime minister of Singapore declared de facto independence for the country.
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On this day in 1892, the steamship Moravia arrived in New York harbor late in the evening. By this point, 22 of the ship's 358 passengers had died …
On this day in history, race car driver Wendell Scott was born in Virginia. Learn more about Scott in a two-part episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class at https://www.missedinhistory.com/tags/wendell-scott.htm.
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On this day in history, one of the largest recorded geomagnetic storms, known as the Carrington event, began.
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On this day in 1883, the eruption of Krakatau reached its climax. It was one of the deadliest eruptions in modern history.
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Mother Teresa, whose charitable work has been called into question, was born on this day in 1910.
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On this day in 1925, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters held its first meeting. Learn more about the Brotherhood in an episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class at …
On this day in 1972, Merlin DuVal, an assistant secretary in the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, announced that the Tuskegee …
On this day in 1973, a bank robbery and hostage crisis in Stockholm, Sweden, led to the coining of the term "Stockholm Syndrome."
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On this day in 1910, the Japan-Korea Treaty of 1910 was signed, and Japan formally annexed Korea.
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On this day in 1911, Vincenzo Peruggia stole the "Mona Lisa" from the Louvre museum.
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On this day in 1858, Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's paper on the theory of evolution by natural selection was published in the Journal of …
On this day in 1814, entrepreneur and abolitionist Mary Ellen Pleasant was born.
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On this day in 1612, the Pendle witch trials began in England.
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On this day in 1887, activist and journalist Marcus Garvey, namesake of the ideology of Garveyism, was born.
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On this day in 1927, an air race sponsored by James D. Dole and marked by tragedy began.
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On this day in 1977, the radio telescope Big Ear recieved the Wow! signal, which many people believed to be a sign of extraterrestrial intelligence.
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On this day in 1975, the cult classic "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" premiered in London.
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On this day in 1904, Tewa potter Margaret Tafoya was born.
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On this day in 1883, the last quagga died in a zoo in Amsterdam.
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On this day in 1965, the Watts Riots began in Los Angeles.
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On this day in 1793, the Louvre opened to the public as a museum.
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On this day in 1173, the foundation stones for the Leaning Tower of Pisa were laid.
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On this day in 1988, massive strikes and protests broke out around Myanmar in opposition to the government.
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On this day in 1947, Thor Heyerdahl and his crew made it to the Raroia atoll in Polynesia on a raft called the Kon-Tiki.
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On this day in 1991, the first ever website was made publicly available. Visit the first web page at http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html.
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On this day in 1600, John Ruthven, 3rd earl of Gowrie, and his younger brother Alexander Ruthven were killed under mysterious circumstances.
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On this day, baseball player Herman "Germany" Schaefer stole first base from second base.
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La Scala opera house was inaugurated on this day in 1778. Learn more about La Scala in an episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class at https://www.missedinhistory.com/podcasts/the-la-scala-opera-house.htm.
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On this day in 1874, scientist and women's rights activist Berta Lutz was born.
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On this day in 1911, cartoonist Jackie Ormes was born.
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On this day, Germany targeted the Soviets' 588th Night Bomber Regiment, aka the Night Witches, with tracers and deployed night fighters. Learn more about the Night Witches in an episode of Stuff You Missed in History …
On this day in 1511, artist, architect, and writer Giorgio Vasari was born. You can learn more about Vasari in an episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class at …
On this day in 1836, the Arc de Triomphe in Paris was inaugurated.
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On this day in 1866, children's author Beatrix Potter was born.
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On this day in 1794, members of the National Convention arrested Maximilien Robespierre and some of his supporters, in what became known as the Thermidorian Reaction.
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On this day in 1887, "Unua Libro," the first book to describe the international language of Esperanto, was published in Warsaw.
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On this day in 1978, Louise Joy Brown became the first person to be born through in vitro fertilization.
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On this day in 1889, cryptanalyst Agnes Meyer Driscoll was born.
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On this day in 1903, the Ford Motor Company sold its first Model A.
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On this day in 1849, Jewish-American writer Emma Lazarus was born. Learn more about Emma Lazarus at https://www.missedinhistory.com/podcasts/emma-lazarus.htm
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On this day in 365 C.E., an earthquake off the coast of Crete triggered a tsunami and destruction in the Eastern Mediterranean.
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On this day in 1969, Apollo 11 landed on the moon, making Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong the first people to walk on the moon.
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On this day in 1919, race riots began in Washington, D.C., during the period of increased anti-Black violence known as Red Summer. Learn more about …
On this day in 1969, a cease-fire was called in the so-called Football War, or Soccer War, between El Salvador and Honduras.
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On this day in 1959, paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey discovered the skull of a hominin called Paranthropus boisei, also known as Zinj or the …
On this day in 1854, Elizabeth Jennings was forcefully removed from a segregated streetcar in New York. Learn more about Elizabeth Jennings Graham in …
On this day in 1864, Maggie Walker was born.
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On this day in 1933, Nazi Germany passed the Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring.
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On this day in 1930, Uruguay hosted the first FIFA World Cup.
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On this day in 1856, American filibuster William Walker set himself up as president of Nicaragua.
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On this day in 1897, S. A. Andrée, Nils Strindberg, and Knut Fraenkel began their doomed journey to the North Pole on a hot air balloon.
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On this day 1902, Cuban writer and activist Nicolás Guillén was born.
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Great Train Wreck of 1918 - July 9, 1918 | The Great Train Wreck of 1918 happened on this day when two trains in Nashville collided head-on, killing …
On this day in 1947, Roswell Army Air Field issued a press release saying a flying saucer had been found near Roswell, New Mexico.
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On this day in 1928, the Chillicothe Baking Company sold the first pre-sliced, wrapped loaves of bread.
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On this day, the Piper Alpha oil rig exploded and caught fire.
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On this day in 1996, the cloned sheep Dolly was born.
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On this day in 1997, Mars Pathfinder landed on Mars.
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On this day in 1938, the world speed record for steam locomotives was set when Mallard went 126 miles per hour.
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On this day in 1925, Congolese politician, Pan-Africanist, and independence leader Patrice Lumumba was born.
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On this day in 1960, Ghana was declared a republic, and Kwame Nkrumah was inaugurated as president.
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On this day in 1908, an explosion occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Russia that was likely caused by a meteorite or comet bursting.
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On this day in 1520, Aztec emperor Moctezuma died, either at the hands of Spaniards or Aztecs unhappy with his rule.
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On this day in 1968, New York City police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar, sparking nights of riots that became a major moment of resistance in …
On this day in 1912, writer, social worker, teacher, and diplomat E.R. Braithwaite was born.
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On this day in 1893 or 1903, blues musician Big Bill Broonzy was born.
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Charles-François Thibault took three photos during the June Days uprising on this day and the following in 1848. Two of them became the first photos …
On this day in 1374, a dancing mania outbreak began in Aachen, Germany.
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The bloodiest battle in the revolution to overthrow Victoriano Huerta -- the Battle of Zacatecas, or La Toma de Zacatecas -- took place on this day …
On this day in history, the Roman Inquisition sentenced Galileo Galilei for being "vehemently suspect of heresy."
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On this day in 1893, the Ferris Wheel debuted at the World's Fair in Chicago.
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On this day in 1900, the seige of the Legation Quarter in Beijing, China, during the Boxer Rebellion began. https://www.missedinhistory.com/podcasts/boxer-rebellion.htm
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On this day in 1865, Major General Gordon Granger announced the abolition of slavery in Galveston, Texas. The day is now commemorated as Juneteenth.
This day in 1908 marked the beginning of Japanese mass immigration to Brazil when the ship Kasato Maru arrived at the port of Santos in Brazil.
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On this day in 1631, Mumtaz Mahal died from complications of childbirth.
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On this day in 1963, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to fly into space.
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On this day in 1904, a fire on the paddle steamer General Slocum caused more than a thousand deaths.
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On this day in 1846, the Bear Flag Revolt began when a group of Americans invaded Sonoma.
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On this day in 1911, physicist and Nobel Prize winner Luis W. Alavarez was born. Learn more about Alvarez in an episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class at https://www.missedinhistory.com/tags/luis-w-alvarez.htm
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On this day in 1929, Anne Frank was born in Germany.
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On this day in 1971, the occupation of Alcatraz by the Indians of All Tribes ended when federal marshals removed the Native Americans who remained on the island.
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On this day in 1838, the Myall Creek Massacre occurred in New South Wales.
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On this day, writer, pacifist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Bertha von Suttner was born.
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On this day in 1972, photographer Nick Út took the Pulitzer Prize-winning image that became known as the "napalm girl" photo.
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On this day, Paul Blobel -- leader of the Aktion 1005 operation to get rid of evidence of Nazi mass murders -- was executed.
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On this day in 1984, the video game "Tetris" was released.
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On this day in 1981, the first report on AIDS was published in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, before AIDS was identified as a syndrome.
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On this day in 1932, the goverment junta of Chile began.
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On this day in 1943, the Zoot Suit Riots began in Los Angeles.
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On this day in 1802, Aboriginal resistance leader Pemulwuy died.
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On this day in 1843, Isabella Baumfree took the name Sojourner Truth. Truth went on to become an abolitionist and advocate for Black and women's …
On this day in 1669, English naval administrator Samuel Pepys wrote his last diary entry. Learn more about Samuel Pepys in an episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class at …
On this day in 1953, Nepalese sherpa Tenzing Norgay and climber Edmund Hillary became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, the highest mountain above sea level.
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On this day in 1919, a total solar eclipse experiment helped prove Einstein's recently proposed general theory of relativity.
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On this day in 1912, Ruby Payne-Scott, the first female radio astronomer in Australia, was born.
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On this day in 1905, the Battle of Tsushima, part of the Russo-Japanese war, began.
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On this day in 1914, dancer and Lindy Hop innovator Frankie Manning was born. Find out more about Frankie Manning in an episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class at https://www.missedinhistory.com/tags/lindy-hop.htms
On this day in 1963, the Organization of African Unity was founded in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
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On this day in 1956, the first Eurovision Song Contest took place in Lugano, Switzerland.
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On this day in 1618, two regents were thrown from a window in the Prague Castle, an incident now known as the Second Defenestration of Prague. For more on this subect, listen to an episode of Stuff You Missed in History …
On this day in 1960, the largest earthquake in recorded history, a magnitude 9.5, hit off the coast of Chile.
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On this day in 1979, riots took place in San Francisco in the aftermath of the trial for Mayor George Moscone and city supervisor Harvey Milk's assassination.
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On this day in 1932, Amelia Earhart took off from Newfoundland on her first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean, becoming the first woman …
On this day in 1930, playwright and activist Lorraine Hansberry was born in Chicago.
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On this day in 1902, the Antikythera mechanism was discovered. Learn more about the mechanism at https://www.missedinhistory.com/podcasts/the-antikythera-mechanism.htm
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On this day in 1875, the first Kentucky Derby was held in Louisville. Learn more about the derby at https://www.missedinhistory.com/podcasts/kentucky-derby-50-years.htm
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On this day in 1929, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences held its first Academy Awards ceremony.
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On this day in 1928, Mickey and Minnie Mouse debuted in a test screening of the animated short "Plane Crazy."
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On this day in 1948, the State of Israel was created.
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On this day in 1985, police bombed the house where members of the MOVE organization lived in West Philadelphia.
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On this day in 1910, Nobel-prize winning chemist Dorothy Hodgkin was born.
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On this day in 868, a copy of the Diamond Sutra was published. It is the oldest surviving complete dated and printed book.
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On this day in 1849, a riot broke out at the Astor Place Opera House in New York.
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On this day in 1893, the Kinetoscope had its first public demonstration at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences.
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On this day in 1945, the massacre of Algerian civilians by French authorities and European Algerians began in retaliation for anti-colonial …
On this day in 1994, one version of Edvard Munch's famous painting "The Scream" was recovered months after it was stolen from the National Gallery in …
On this day in 1884, circus performer and strongwoman Katie Sandwina was born. Learn more about Katie in an episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class at …
On this day in 1832, the Indian Vaccination Act went into effect, providing for the vaccination of thousands of Native Americans from smallpox.
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On this day in 1919, thousands of students gathered at Tiananmen Square in Beijing to protest the Paris Peace Conference.
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"Raja Harischandra," considered by many to be the first full-length Indian feature film, was released on this day in 1913.
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On this day in 1882, Puerto Rican activist Isabel González was born.
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On this day in 1820, the conspirators who plotted to assassinate the entire British Cabinet were executed for high treason. Learn more about the conspiracy at …
On this day in 1963, West Indians in Bristol, England, boycotted the Bristol Omnibus Company for its refusal to hire people of color as bus crew.
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On this day in 1854, the Ashmun Institute, now called Lincoln University, was chartered as a college for Black men.
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On this day in 1870, performers Fanny and Stella were arrested for "public mischief" for cross-dressing.
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On this day in 1865, the steamboat Sultana exploded, killing an estimate of nearly 2,000 people.
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On this day in 1986, a chemical explosion in a nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Soviet Ukraine triggered one of the worst nuclear disasters ever.
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On this day in 1953, Watson and Crick's article on their discovery of the structure of DNA was published in the journal Nature.
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On this day in 1932, hundreds of ramblers protested being denied access to open country by trespassing at Kinder Scout, a moorland plateau in England.
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On this day in 1985, Coca-Cola launched New Coke, the reformulated version of its flagship drink. Coke drinkers did not respond well to the new …
On this day in 1954, the Army-McCarthy Senate hearings began which resulted in the end of the McCarthy era.
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On this day in 1966, members of the gay rights organization the Mattachine Society staged a "sip-in" to protest gay people being refused service at bars.
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On this day in 1968, Conservative MP gave an anti-immigration speech that became known as the "Rivers of Blood" speech.
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Oliver Haugh, who had been convicted of killing his family, was executed by electric chair on this day in 1907. Listen to the two-part episode of …
On this day in 1688, four Quakers in Germantown, Pennsylvania, authored a petition against slavery.
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On this day in 1917, neurologist Constantin von Economo announced the probable spread of a viral disease, encephalitis lethargica, at a spread of a …
Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, a famous 18th-century artist who would go on to paint 30 portraits of Queen Marie Antoinette, was born in Paris on …
On this day in 1989, the death of reformer Hu Yaobang sparked pro-democracy protests in China.
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On this day in 1912, stewardess Violet Jessop escaped the sinking Titanic on a lifeboat.
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One of the deadliest racial incidents during the Reconstruction Era happened on this day in 1873, when a massacre broke out in the aftermath of a controversial election.
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On this day in 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin orbited Earth once, earning him the title of the first person to travel in space.
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On this day in 1979, Ugandan dictator Idi Amin was deposed and fled the country.
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The Statute of Anne, widely recognized the first full copyright law, went into force on this day in 1710.
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On this day in 1921, Mary Winston Jackson was born in Hampton, Virginia. She would go on to become NASA's first Black female engineer. You can find …
On this day in 1820, the now-famous sculpture known as the Venus de Milo was uncovered on the Aegean island of Melos.
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On this day in 1994, the Rwandan military and Hutu militia groups began killing Tutsis and moderate Hutu politicians, inciting a genocide that lasted …
On this day in 1846, Dred and Harriet Scott, an enslaved husband and wife, filed petitions to sue for their freedom in the St. Louis Circuit Court. Listen to the two-part Stuff You Missed in History Class episode on …
On this day in 1614, Pocahontas married colonist John Rolfe married.
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On this day in 1967, Dr. Martin Luther KIng, Jr. gave his Beyond Vietnam speech, denouncing the war in Vietnam.
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On this day in 1860, the Pony Express mail service was founded.
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On this day in 1979, an accidental anthrax leak in a microbiology facility in Sverdlovsk in the Soviet Union caused dozens of people to fall ill. The …
On this day in 1960, the first TV picture from space was taken by the TIROS-1 weather satellite.
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It's the last day of women's history month, and it's our last special Sunday episode celebrating women's contributions to society. Today, we welcome Professor Nora Gilbert, who speaks with me about the Hays Motion …
Crawford Long, a doctor in Georgia, became the first to use inhaled ether anesthesia in surgery on this day in 1842.
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On this day in 1857, a 29-year-old sepoy named Mangal Pandey attacked two British officers, which set off more than a year long rebellion.
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On this day in 1949, British astronomer Fred Hoyle coined the term "big bang."
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On this day in 1915, domestic cook Mary Mallon was quarantined for the second, and final, time on North Brother Island for being a typhoid carrier.
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On this day in 1812, a headline in the Boston Gazette read "The Gerry-mander", accompanied by a satirical illustration of the district that Massachusetts governor Elbridge Gerry lived in.
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On this day in 1911, the Triangle Shirtwaist Company factory caught fire, and more than 100 workers died.
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Today, Anney Reese from the podcasts Stuff Mom Never Told You and Savor joins me to talk about the 1921 Women's Olympiad.
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On this day in 1849, an enslaved man named Henry Brown packed himself up in a box and was shipped to Pennsylvania, a free state. Listen to the Stuff You Missed in History Class episode on Henry Brown here: …
On this day in 1916, Chinese emperor Yuan Shikai abdicated the throne and announced he would resume his presidency.
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On this day in 1963, the maximum-security prison Alcatraz closed.
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On this day in 1928, Fred Rogers of "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" fame was born.
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On this day in 1935, a petty theft in a S.H. Kress store and rumors a Black Puerto Rican boy's death led to an all-out riot in Harlem.
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On this day in 1990, two thieves disguised as police officers broke into the Gardner Museum in Boston and stole millions of dollars worth of art that …
Labor and civil rights movement leader Bayard Rustin was born on this day in 1912.
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On this day in 1968, hundreds of Vietnamese civilians were killed by U.S. forces during the Vietnam War.
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On this day in 44 B.C.E., Julius Caesar was assassinated.
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On this day in 1889, Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte became the first Native American woman in the U.S. to receive a medical degree.
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On this day in 1988, protests at Gallaudet University in support of naming the school's first deaf president ended. Dr. I. King Jordan, a deaf man, …
On this day in 1930, Gandhi and dozens of his followers set out on the Salt March to protest the salt tax and the British Raj.
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The first public basketball game took place on this day in 1892.
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Today on the show, we celebrate Women's History Month by honoring the life and work of Lillian Wald with special guest Marjorie Feld, who wrote the book "Lillian Wald: A Biography."
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On this day in 1959, the Barbie doll was introduced at the American Toy Fair in New York City.
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On this day in 1917, the February Revolution began in Russia.
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On this day in 1965, about 600 people set out from Selma, Alabama, to begin a 50-mile march to Montgomery. But not long after they left, law …
Cassie Chadwick was a career con artist who claimed to be Andrew Carnegie's daughter. On this day in 1905, her trial began.
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On this day in 1770, a brawl broke out in Boston and turned into a deadly fight. The fight, which became known as the Boston Massacre, helped pave …
On this day in 1936, the Hindenburg zeppelin took its first test flight. The Hindenburg's service would end when it caught on fire on May 6, 1937.
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On this day in 1913, Delta Sigma Theta attended the Women's Suffrage March for their first public act.
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On this day in 1882, a man named Roderick Maclean attempted to assassinate Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. It was the eighth and last time …
On this day in 1932, Charles Lindbergh Jr., the son of aviator Charles Lindbergh and Anne Lindbergh, was kidnapped.
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On this day in 1874, a man who claimed to be the heir of the Tichborne estate was found guilty of perjury.
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On this day in 1932, the journal Nature published a letter by English physicist James Chadwick that detailed his possible discovery of the neutron.
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On this day in 1917, the Original Dixieland Jass Band made the first jazz recording.
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On this day in 1870, Hiram Revels became the first African-American U.S. senator.
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On this day in 1803, the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Marbury v. Madison was decided, establishing judicial review.
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On this day in 1954, Dr Jonas Salk's polio vaccine trials began.
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On this day in 1943, White rose members Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl, and Christoph Probst were executed for passing out anti-Nazi pamphlets.
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On this day in 1965, Black nationalist leader Malcolm X was assassinated in New York City.
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On this day in 1902, renowned photographer Ansel Adams was born.
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On this day in 1942, FDR signed Executive Order 9066, which authorized military commanders to prescribe certain areas as "military zones," which made it legal to incarcerate Japanese Americans in US concentration camps.
On this day in 1930, junior astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovered that Pluto was a planet. Learn even more about Pluto on the episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class, Pluto: The Demoted Dwarf Planet.
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On this day in 1913, the Armory Show, an exhibition showcasing modern art by hundreds of American and European artists, opened in New York City.
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On this day in 1959, Fidel Castro was sworn in as the prime minister of Cuba.
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On this day in 1796, Australia's first bushranger, John "Black" Caesar, died.
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On this day in 1876, inventors Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray both filed patent documents for their telephone designs, starting a years-long controversy.
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On this day in 1692, soldiers brutally killed members of the Clan MacDonald of Glencoe after staying in the MacDonalds' homes for nearly two weeks.
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On this day in 1909, an interracial group of American leaders met in New York to call for an organization that would fight for African American civil …
On this day in 1916, anarchist and activist Emma Goldman was arrested for distributing information on birth control.
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On this day in 1355, riots broke out in Oxford, England, when a couple of university students incited a pub brawl over bad wine.
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On this day in 1907, thousands of suffragists marched from Hyde Park to Exeter Hall in London in what became known as the Mud March.
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On this day in 1887, U.S. President Grover Cleveland signed the Dawes General Allotment Act into law.
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On this day in 1926, the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History launched Negro History Week, which was later extended to Black History Month.
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Maori chiefs and representatives of the British Crown signed the Treaty of Waitangi on this day in 1840.
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The New Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg opened to the public on this day in 1852.
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Constantin von Tischendorf identified the Codex Sinaiticus, or Sinai Bible, on this day in 1859.
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On this day in 1972, the deadliest blizzard ever recorded started in Iran.
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Alexander Selkirk had been stranded on an island in the South Pacific for over four years. On this day in 1709, he was rescued.
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The Greensboro sit-ins began on this day in 1960.
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The Battle of George Square riots broke out in Glasgow, Scotland, on this day in 1919.
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The Beatles played their last public show on a rooftop in London on this day in 1969.
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On this day in 1886, German engineer Karl Benz applied for a patent for his Motorwagen.
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"Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen was originally published on this day in 1813.
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Soviet forces liberated the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz on this day in 1945.
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On this day in 1700, a massive earthquake struck off the Pacific Northwest coast in North America.
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On this day in 1890, journalist Nellie Bly ended her 72-day trip around the world.
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Ballerina Maria Tallchief was born on this day in 1925.
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On this day in 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to get a medical degree from a medical school.
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On this day in 1925, Dr. Curtis Welch sent an urgent telegram in an effort to stop a diphtheria epidemic in Nome, Alaska.
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The Irish War of Independence began on this day in 1919.
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The Iran Hostage Crisis ended on this day in 1981, minutes after the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan.
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The German ambassador to Mexico received a coded telegram from German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmerman on this day in 1917.
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Gilles Garnier, the Werewolf of Dole, was convicted of lycanthropy on this day in 1573. Find out more in the October 28, 2015 Stuff You Missed in …
Businessmen aided by U.S. troops overthrew Queen Lili'uokalani of Hawaii on this day in 1893. The July 7 and 12, 2010 episodes of Stuff You Missed in …
The 18th Amendment to the U.S. constitution was ratified on this day in 1919, prohibiting the sale, manufacture and transport of alcohol.
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The Boston Molasses Flood took place on this day in 1919. Get more to the story in the October 5, 2009 episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class.
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George Wallace was inaugurated as governor of Alabama on this day in 1963, giving his infamous "Segregation Now, Segregation Forever" speech. There's more in the November 30, 2016 Stuff You Missed in History Class.
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The Nika Riots began in Constantinople on this day in 532.
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The Schoolhouse Blizzard took place on this day in 1888. You can learn more in the January 18, 2016 episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class.
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The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Hernandez v. Texas on this day in 1954. There's more in the September 27, 2017 episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class.
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Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon on this day in 49 BCE.
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The first modern circus performance took place on this day in 1768.
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Karl M. Baer was legally recognized as male on this day in 1907. He had been assigned female at birth.
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Marian Anderson became the first Black performer to take the stage at the Metropolitan Opera on this day in 1955. There's more in the August 1, 2011 …
The Night of the Big Wind began on this day in 1839.
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King C. Gillette was born on this day in 1855.
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Topsy the Elephant was electrocuted on this day in 1903.
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Lucretia Mott was born on this day in 1793. There's more in the August 15, 2018 episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class.
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A new planet, called Vulcan, was announced on this day in 1860.
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Lorenzo de' Medici was born on this day in 1449. There's more in the March 31, 2010 episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class, "Death at the Duomo: The Pazzi Conspiracy."
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The ship carrying Theodosia Burr Alston disappeared on this day in 1812. There's more to the story in the October 17, 2017 episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class.
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The Iroquois Theater in Chicago burned on this day in 1903. There's more detail in the December 8, 2014 episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class.
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A group of Lakota Sioux were surrounded and a tragic firefight erupted on this day in 1890. There's more detail in the August 10, 2009 episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class.
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Auguste and Louis Lumière charged 1 franc admission to see several of their films on this day in 1895. There's more detail in the November 27 and 29, 2017 episodes of Stuff You Missed in History Class.
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Carry Nation destroyed the Carey Hotel's bar as a Temperance protest on this day in 1900. There's more detail in the July 24 and 26, 2017 episodes of …
The pan-African holiday Kwanzaa, created by Maulana Karenga, was celebrated for the first time beginning this day in 1966.
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The comet that Edmond Halley had calculated to return appeared as in the night sky as predicted on this day in 1758.
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Joseph Mohr and Franz Gruber performed "Stille Nacht" for the first time at a Christmas Eve mass in Austria on Dec. 24, 1818. There's more detail in the December 24, 2018 episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class.
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Richard Herrick received a kidney from his twin brother on this day in 1954.
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Alfred Dreyfus was wrongfully convicted of selling military secrets to Germany on this day in 1894.
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A bomb exploded aboard Pan Am Flight 103 on this day in 1988.
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South Carolina seceded from the Union on this day in 1860.
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Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" was published for the first time on this day in 1843.
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The "discovery" of the Piltdown Man was announced on this day in 1912. There's more to the story in the December 26, 2016 episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class.
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The observance of Saturnalia begins on December 17, although we don't know precisely which year the first Saturnalia was observed. There's more detail in the December 23, 2009 episode of Stuff You Missed in History …
American colonists in Boston protested British rule with the Boston Tea Party incident on this day in 1773.
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Sitting Bull, the Hunkpapa Lakota leader and seminal Native American figure, was killed at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation on this day in 1890.
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Roald Amundsen and his expedition became the first people to reach the South Pole, beating Robert Falcon Scott's expedition, on this day in 1911.
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Ibn Battuta, one of the most accomplished travelers of the medieval Islamic world, completed his travelogue known as the Rihla, or Journey, on this day in 1355.
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The Oaks Colliery exploded on this day in 1866.
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Louis XVI was indicted for treason on this day in 1792. There's more detail in the November 19, 2008 episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class.
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Japan's 300 Million Yen Robbery took place on this day in 1968.
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The Cretan Autonomous State was established on this day in 1898 under the Julian calendar. By the Gregorian calendar, it was December 21.
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Christina of Sweden was born on this day in 1626. In the new-style calendar, she was born Dec. 18. She's also covered in the October 20, 2014 episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class.
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Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on this day in 1941, bringing the United States into World War II.
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The Halifax Disaster occurred on this day in 1917. There's more on the tragedy in the December 19, 2011 episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class.
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The Mary Celeste was spotted adrift on this day in 1872. You can learn more in the January 24, 2013 episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class.
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Rainer Maria Rilke was born on this day in 1875.
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The trial of the Kapenguria Six began on this day in 1952.
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The Monroe Doctrine was articulated in an address to Congress on this day in 1823.
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Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus on this day in 1955. There's more in the February 3 and 5, 2014, episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class.
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Elizabeth I delivered her "Golden Speech" on this day in 1601.
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The Zong Massacre began on this day in 1781.
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Anne Bonny and Mary Read were convicted of piracy on this day in 1720. You can find more to the story in the August 15, 2016 episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class.
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George Moscone and Harvey Milk were assassinated on this day in 1978.
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Archaeologists entered the tomb of King Tutankhamun on this day in 1922. There's more to the story in the September 15, 2010 episode of Stuff You …
The Mirabal Sisters were assassinated in the Dominican Republic on this day in 1960. You can learn more in the November 21 2018 episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class.
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A man known as D.B. Cooper parachuted out of an airplane and was never seen again on this day in 1971. You can learn more in the October 3, 2011 episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class.
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The St. John Slave Insurrection began on this day in 1733.
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Blackbeard was killed on this day in 1718. There's more to the story in the May 5, 2014 episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class.
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The Mayflower Compact was signed on this day in 1620.
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A whale sank the Essex on this day in 1820. There's more in the Sep. 27, 2010 episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class.
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Indira Gandhi was born on this day in 1917.
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"Steamboat Willie" was released on this day in 1928.
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H.H. Holmes was arrested on this day in 1894. There's more in the Jan. 23 and 25, 2012 episodes of Stuff You Missed in History Class.
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The Battle of Cajamarca, also called the Massacre of Cajamarca, took place on this day in 1532. You can learn more in the April 4, 2018 episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class.
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Sherman's March to the Sea began on this day in 1864.
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BBC began daily radio broadcasts on this day in 1922.
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One of history's many Bloody Sundays took place on this day in 1887 in London.
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Baha'u'llah, founder of the Baha'i faith, was born on this day in 1817.
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The armistice that ended the fighting in World War I was signed on this day in 1918.
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The Wilmington Coup began on this day in 1898. You can learn more in the January 15 and 17, 2018 episodes of Stuff You Missed in History Class.
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Kristallnacht began on this day in 1938. You can learn more in the November 7, 2018, episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class.
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Wilhelm Roentgen observed X-rays for the first time on this day in 1895.
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The Russian government was overthrown in the Bolshevik revolution on this day in 1917. This date is also noted as October 25, since Russia was using …
The United Nations condemned apartheid and asked member states to take action against South Africa on this day in 1962.
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Shirley Chisholm was elected to Congress on this day in 1968. There's more in the November 5, 2018 episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class.
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St. Clair's Defeat, also known as the Battle of the Thousand Slain, took place on this day in 1791. There's more in the November 18, 2015 episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class.
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John Willis Menard was elected to Congress on this day in 1868.
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Marie Antoinette was born on this day in 1755.
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The Sistine Chapel ceiling was revealed to the public for the first time on this day in 1512.
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Martin Luther posted his 95 theses on this day in 1517.
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The radio broadcast of "War of the Worlds" took place on this day in 1938. There's more in the September 17, 2012 episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class.
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Sir Walter Raleigh was beheaded on this day in 1618. You can learn more on the October 22, 2108 episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class.
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The Czechoslovak Republic, or Czechoslovakia, was proclaimed on this day in 1918.
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Missouri Executive Order 44, also known as the Extermination Order, was issued on this day in 1838.
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The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral took place on this day in 1881. There's more in the September 14, 2009 episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class.
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The SS Princess Sophia sank on this day in 1918.
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Ninety percent of Iceland's women went on strike in the Women's Day Off on this day in 1975.
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The War of Jenkin's Ear, known in Spain as Guerra del Asiento, began on this day in 1739.
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The Great Disappointment of the Millerites took place on this day in 1844.
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The first modern planetarium opened in Munich on this day in 1923.
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The firings and resignations known as the Saturday Night Massacre took place on this day in 1973, during the Watergate scandal.
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Members of the military attacked the National Palace in Guatemala on this day in 1944, during the Guatemalan Revolution.
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The Battle of Mabila took place on this day in 1540.
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The London Beer Flood took place on this day in 1814.
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Athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised their fists in protest at the Olympic Games on this day in 1968.
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Mata Hari was executed for espionage on this day in 1917. There's more to her story in the June 30, 2010 episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class, "Mati Hari, Sinister Salome?"
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The trial of Mary, Queen of Scots began on this day in 1586.
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The revival of modern Hebrew began on this day in 1881, when Eliezer Ben-Yehuda began speaking it exclusively among friends and family.
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An iron lung was used for the first time on this day in 1928. There's more about iron lungs and their uses in polio cases in the January 30, 2017 …
The Second Vatican Council, also known as Vatican II, opened on this day in 1962.
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Assassin Lyudmila Pavlichenko died on this day in 1974. There's more about her in the May 15, 2017 episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class, "Six …
Che Guevara was executed on this day in 1967.
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Alvin York led a group of soldiers to capture a German machine gun nest on this day in 1918. There's more in the October 3, 2018 episode of Stuff You …
Desmond Tutu was born on this day in 1931.
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The Reno Brothers staged the first peacetime train robbery in the U.S. on this day in 1866.
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Women marched on Versailles on this day in 1789. There's more to the story in the February 8, 2017 episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class.
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The Orient Express started its service from Paris to Istanbul, then often called Constantinople, on this day in 1883.
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Italy invaded the Ethiopian Empire, also known as Abyssinia, on this day in 1935.
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The Perejil, or Parsley, Massacre began on this day in 1937.
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Mao Zedong proclaimed the formation of the People's Republic of China on this day in 1949. There's more in the Stuff You Missed in History Class episodes "The Great Leap Forward" (September 1, 2014), "The Great Famine" …
The Boeing 747 was introduced on this day in 1968.
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Rudolf Diesel disappeared on this day in 1913, which is also marked as the date of his death.
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Lilian Bland was born on this day in 1878. Learn more in the July 13, 2016 episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class.
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Suleiman's siege of Vienna began on this day in 1529. Learn more in the July 7, 2014 episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class.
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Johnny Appleseed was born on this day in 1774. There's more in the March 18, 2013 episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class.
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The Treaty of York formalized the border between England and Scotland on this day in 1237.
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Benedict Arnold escaped on this day in 1780.
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Victoria Woodhull, first woman to run for U.S. president, was born on this day in 1838. There's more in the March 28, 2011 episode of Stuff You …
Shaka, founder of the Zulu Empire, was killed on this day in 1828.
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Alexandria of Bavaria died on this day in 1875. There's more in the April 24, 2015 episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class, "The Princess Who Swallowed a Glass Piano."
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The Battle of the Sexes tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs took place on this day in 1973.
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Hikers discovered Ötzi the Iceman on this day in 1991. There's more in the January 4, 2012 episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class.
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Constantine the Great united the Roman Empire on this day in 324.
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The Camp David Accords were signed on this day in 1978. The September 16, 2009 episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class is an interview with President Jimmy Carter about the accords.
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The Grito de Dolores launched the Mexican War of Independence on this day in 1810.
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The Crash at Crush took place on this day in 1896. The full story of this and other for-profit train wrecks is in the September 25, 2017 episode of …
U.S. President William McKinley died on this day in 1901, having been shot by an assassin on September 6. For more on the assassination of McKinley and other U.S. presidents, check out the November 9 and 11 2015 …
Phineas Gage was struck through the skull with a tamping iron on this day in 1848. There's more detail in the September 11, 2013 episode of Stuff You …
Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett eloped on this day in 1846. There's more in the February 15, 2012 episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class.
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Vivekananda gave a speech on Hinduism in Chicago on this day in 1893.
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DNA fingerprinting was discovered on this day in 1984.
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The Attica Prison Uprising began on this day in 1971. There's more to the story in the November 14 and 16, 2016 episodes of Stuff You Missed in History Class.
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The Delano Grape Strike began on this day in 1965.
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Pirates raided the Ganj-i-Sawai on this day in 1695. There's more in the May 9, 2018 episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class, "Henry Every, …
The Candia Massacre began on this day in 1898.
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"Hippie" was first used in print with its current meaning on this day in 1965.
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A series of events known as the Peekskill Riots ended on this day in 1949.
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The Whitestone Hill Massacre occurred on this day in 1863. There's more in the November 23, 2016 episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class, "The Dakota War of 1862 and the Whitestone Hill Massacre."
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The Great Fire of London began on this day in 1666. There's more in the May 30, 2011 episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class, "History's Unforgettable Fires."
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An error during a crash dive led to a catastrophe aboard the submarine USS S-5 on this day in 1920. There's more to the story in the November 26, 2014 episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class.
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Mary Ann Nichols was murdered on this day in 1888, the first canonical victim of Jack the Ripper.
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England's master gardener, Lancelot "Capability" Brown, was baptized on this day in 1716.
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Karl Heinrich Ulrichs publicly defended homosexuality at the Congress of German Jurists on this day in 1867, making him the first gay man to publicly speak on the topic of gay rights.
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Emmett Till was murdered on this day in 1955. For a longer look at the story, listen to the August 28, 2017 episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class, "The Motherhood of Mamie Till-Mobley."
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The Battle of Ambos Nogales took place on this day in 1918. You can learn more in the Stuff You Missed in History Class episode from August 22, 2018.
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The final articles of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen were adopted on this day in 1789, during the French Revolution. There's …
The Great Moon Hoax began on this day in 1835. There are many more details in the March 30 and April 1, 2015, episodes of Stuff You Missed in History Class.
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Vesuvius destroyed Pompeii, Herculaneum and surrounding communities in a volcanic eruption on this day in the year 79. For more of the story, check …
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed on this day in 1927. For more detail, listen to the August 5, 2009 episode of Stuff You Missed in …
The First Geneva Convention was signed on this day in 1864. This is also part of the January 9, 2017 episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class, "Henry Dunant, Founder of the Red Cross."
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The Haitian Revolution began on this day in 1791. For a longer episode on the subject, listen to the January 27, 2017 episode of Stuff You Missed in …
The crew of a ship called the White Lion traded several enslaved Africans for food and repairs on this day in 1619, often described as the beginning …
Inventor Philo Farnsworth was born on this day in 1906. Learn more in the September 18, 2013 episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class, "Philo T. Farnsworth."
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The 19th Amendment was ratified on this day in 1920.
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Leo Frank was lynched on this day in 1915. For a longer look, listen to the August 3, 2011 episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class, "The Trial of Leo Frank."
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The first transatlantic telegraph cable carried its first messages on this day in 1858. Get a longer story in the November 9, 2016 episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class, "The First Transatlantic Telegraph Cable."
India became independent from the British Empire on this day in 1947, an event that is also intrinsically connected to the independence of Pakistan and the partition of the two nations.
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The Mainz Psalter was published on this day in 1457. It was the second book printed with movable type in the West.
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Opha May Johnson became the first known woman to enlist in the U.S. Marine Corps on this day in 1918.
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Isaac Singer patented his sewing machine on this day in 1851. There's more detail in the July 27, 2016, episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class.
Anne Lister wrote her first diary entry on this day in 1806. For more detail, listen to the January 29, 2018, episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class, "Anne Lister."
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The Pueblo Revolt began on this day in 1680. Learn more in the January 27, 2014, episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class, "Pueblo Revolt."
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Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, philanthropist and wife of Alexander Hamilton, was born on this day in 1757.
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The Battle of Amiens began on this day in 1918, starting the 100 Days Offensive that ended World War I. There's more to the story in the August 6, 2018, episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class.
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The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was passed on this day in 1964.
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The United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on this day in 1945. For a longer look, listen to the February 26, 2018, episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class, "Sadako Sasaki's 1000 Cranes, Part 1."
The Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASP, was formed on this day in 1943. Learn more in the March 21 and 23, 2016, episodes of Stuff You Missed in History Class.
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Lizzie Borden's parents were murdered on this day in 1892. Learn more details in the August 15, 2012, episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class, "Lizzie Borden and Her Axe (Update)."
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Jesse Owens won the first of his four gold medals at the Berlin Olympic Games on this day in 1936. There's a longer look at the Nazi Games in the …
Hitler united both the chancellorship and presidency of Germany on this day in 1934. For more details, listen to the May 22, 2017, episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class, "Night of the Long Knives."
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Caroline Herschel became the first woman to discover a comet on this day in 1786. There's a longer look at her life in the June 30, 2014, episode of …
Ferdinand and Isabella issued the Alhambra Decree on this day in 1492.
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The Diggers' Republic of Klipdrift was founded in South Africa on this day in 1870.
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Confederate spy Belle Boyd was arrested on this day in 1862.
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Peru declared independence from Spain on this day in 1821.
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The Korean Armistice Agreement was signed on this day in 1953, ending active hostilities in the Korean War.
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Liberia declared independence on this day in 1847.
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The U.S. invaded Puerto Rico on this day in 1898, during the Spanish-American War.
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The Eastland Disaster occurred in Chicago on this day in 1915.
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The Egyptian Revolution took place on this day in 1952.
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Selman Waksman, who is credited with developing streptomycin, was born on this day in 1888.
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John Scopes was found guilty of teaching evolution on this day in 1925.
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The First Special Olympics began on this day in 1868.
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The Seneca Falls Convention convened in New York on this day in 1848.
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The Great Fire of Rome began on this day in the year 64.
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The Romanov family was executed on this day in 1918.
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Journalist and anti-lynching crusader Ida B. Wells-Barnett was born on this day in 1862.
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After roughly four centuries, the Spanish Inquisition was disbanded on this day in 1834.
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Gertrude Bell, who helped shape modern Iraq, was born on this day in 1868.
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The New York Draft Riots began on this day in 1863.
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The Bisbee Deportation took place on this day in 1917 in Bisbee, Arizona.
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Explorer Zheng He's first voyage began on this day in 1405.
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Famed inventor Nikola Tesla was born on this day in 1856.
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The Constitutionalist Revolution began on this day in 1932.
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Jonathan Edwards' sermon 'Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God' was published on this day in 1741.
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Joan of Arc was posthumously acquitted of heresy on this day in 1456.
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Richard the Lionheart inherited the throne after the death of his father, on this day in 1189.
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The London Match Girls' Strike at the Bryant and May match factory began on this day in 1888.
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Walt Witman's 'Leaves of Grass' was published on this day in 1855.
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The artifact known as the Phaistos Disc was discovered on this day in 1908.
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A rebellion took place aboard the slave ship Amistad on this day in 1839.
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Ignaz Semmelweis, known as the father of infection control, was born on this day in 1818.
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From the desk of “Stuff You Missed in History Class,” “This Day in History Class” quickly recounts a tidbit from today’s events in history.
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