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1993 - European Union is established. 1981 - The U.S. Postal Service raises the first-class letter rate to 20 cents. 1952 - The U.S. tests its first hydrogen bomb in Marshall Islands. 1944 - FDR puts Coast Guard under control of the Navy. 1927 - Ford Model A production begins. 1914 - The Bra was patented. 1895 - The new U.S. Library of Congress building opened its doors to the public. 1895 - First American auto club is found. 1870 - The U.S. Weather Bureau makes its first meteorological observations using 24 locations that provided reports via telegraph. 1848 - The Boston Female Medical School, which later merged with Boston University School of Medicine, is established by Samuel Gregory. 1800 - U.S. President John Adams becomes the first president to move into White House. | |
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1995 - $1.1 billion in trading loss scandal closes Daiwa Bank in U.S. 1993 - Christie Todd Whitman is elected as the first female governor of New Jersey (US). 1983 - Truck explosion kills 3,000 in Afghanistan. 1983 - ML King Federal holiday is declared. 1963 - South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem murdered during coup. 1948 - Harry S. Truman defeats Thomas E. Dewey for the U.S. presidency. 1947 - Howard Hughes flies his "Spruce Goose," a huge wooden airplane, for 8 minutes in California (US). 1889 - North Dakota and South Dakota are admitted to the Union as the 39th and 40th states, respectively. 1865 - President Harding is born in Ohio. 1795 - President Polk is born in North Carolina. 1721 - Peter the Great (Peter I) becomes Emperor of Russia. | |
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2014 - One World Trade Center in New York City is opened for business. 1992 - Carol Moseley-Braun becomes the first female African-American U.S. senator. 1986 - Iran arms sales revealed. 1973 - NASA launches the Mariner 10, becoming the first spacecraft to reach the Mercury planet on 3/29/1974. 1964 - Johnson defeats Goldwater for presidency. 1911 - Chevrolet Motor Car Company is founded by William C. Durant and Louis Chevrolet. 1903 - Panama declares independence. 1900 - America's first car show begins. 1892 - The first automatic telephone system invented by Almon Strowger goes into service at LaPorte,IN 1839 - First Opium War between China and Britain begins. 1793 - Stephen F. Austin, the principal founder of Texas, is born. | |
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1995 - Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated by right-wing Israeli Yigal Amir 1979 - Iranians storms the U.S. embassy in Tehran and takes 90 total hostages, including 63 Americans 1956 - Soviets crush Hungarian revolt 1952 - National Security Agency (NSA) is established. 1948 - T.S. Eliot wins Nobel Prize in literature 1939 - The first air-conditioned car is displayed at the 40th National Automobile show 1924 - Nellie T. Ross of Wyoming is elected as America's first female governor to serve out the remaining term of her late husband, William B. Ross 1922 - Entrance to King Pharaoh Tutankhamen's tomb in Egypt is discovered 1880 - A patent for an artificial leg invented by Benjamin Palmer is granted 1846 - A patent for the first cash register invented by James and John Ritty is granted | |
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1987 - Goban Mbeki, who was sentenced to life for treason against the white minority government of South Africa, is released after serving 24 years in the Robben Island prison 1968 - Richard Nixon is elected as the US president 1959 - The American Football League is formed. 1946 - John F. Kennedy is elected to the U.S. House of Representatives at the age of 29 1940 - Franklin Roosevelt wins an unprecedented third term president in office 1930 - American novelist Sinclair Lewis is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 1895 - The first US patent for an automobile is granted to George B. Selden 1872 - Susan B. Anthony, a white American social reformer and women's rights activist is convicted and fined for attempting to vote in the presidential election in her hometown of Rochester, NY. 1844 - A grizzly bear underwent a successful cataract operation at the Zoological Garden in California. | |
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1999 - Australian voters reject a referendum to remove Britain's queen as their head of state 1962 - The U.N. General Assembly adopts a resolution that condemned South Africa's racist apartheid policies 1923 - A patent for the electric shaver invented by Jacob Schick is granted 1917 - Bolsheviks revolt in Russia 1913 - Mohandas K. Gandhi is arrested when leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa 1861 - James Naismith, who invented basketball, is born 1861 - Jefferson Davis is elected as the president of the Confederate States of America 1860 - Abraham Lincoln is elected to be the 16th president of the U.S. 1851 - Charles Henry Dow, the founder of Dow Jones & Company, is born. | |
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2001 - Concorde resumes flying commercially after a 16-month stoppage 2000 - Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York is elected as the U.S. Senate 1989 - Lawrence Douglas Wilder wins the governor's race in Virginia, becoming the first elected African-American state governor in the US history 1989 - David Dinkins is elected and becomes New York City's first African-American mayor 1987 - Tunisia's president Habib Bourguiba, who was the president since the country's independence since 1956, is overthrown 1972 - Nixon re-elected president 1965 - Green Monster sets new speed record, 576.553mph 1957 - East Germany launches the Trabant Sputnik car 1944 - President Franklin Delano Roosevelt is elected to an unprecedented fourth term 1929 - The Museum of Modern Art in New York City opens. 1917 - The government of Alexander Kerensky is overthrown by Russia's Bolshevik Revolution forces led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin 1916 - Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first U.S. congresswoman 1913 - French novelist Albert Camus is born 1893 - Colorado grants its women the right to vote 1665 - "The London Gazette" is first published | |
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1993 - 5 Picasso paintings and other artwork are stolen from the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm, Sweden. 1966 - Edward W. Brooke of Massachusetts becomes the first African-American elected to the U.S.Senate. 1966 - Ronald Reagan is elected as the governor of California 1960 - John F. Kennedy is elected as the U.S. president. 1895 - German scientist discovers X-rays. 1889 - Montana becomes the 41st State. 1864 - Lincoln is reelected as the U.S. president. 1793 - Louvre Museum in Paris opens. | |
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1990 - Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev and Germany sign a non-aggression treaty.
1989 - East Germany opens the Berlin Wall, allowing its citizens to travel freely to West Germany. 1961 - Major Robert White flies an X-15 rocket plane at a world record speed of 4,093 mph. 1961 - The "caucasians only" is removed from the Professional Golfer's Association (PGA)'s rules 1960 - Robert McNamara named Ford Motor president. 1927 - Giant Pandas are discovered in China. 1901 - Teddy Roosevelt establishes a naval base in the Philippines. | |
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1982 - General secretary of the Soviet Communist Party Leonid Brezhnev dies. 1969 - Sesame Street premiered on PBS television. 1951 - Direct dial telephone service is first available coast to coast. 1942 - Germans take Vichy France. 1928 - Hirohito crowned in Japan. 1775 - Birth of the U.S. Marine Corps. | |
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1999 - Around 400 people die when a 7.2 earthquake trikes Ducze, in north-west Turkey. 1989 - Jaguar becomes a subsidiary of Ford 1986 - Sperry Rand and Burroughs merged to become Unisys 1973 - Soviet Union refuses to play Chile in World Cup Soccer 1918 - World War I ends | |
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2001 - American Airlines Flight 587 crashes on takeoff from JFK International airport headed to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, killed 260 people. 1999 - About 400 people are killed as a 7.2-magnitude earthquake strikes Ducze, in north-west Turkey. 1990 - Akihito enthroned as emperor of Japan 1982 -Yuri Andropov assumes power in the Soviet Union 1980 - Voyager I flies near Saturn 1979 - Carter shuts down oil imports from Iran 1946 - First drive-in banking service 1944 - Brits sink the battleship Tirpitz 1927 - Holland Tunnel formally opened 1889 - DeWitt Wallace, founder of Reader's Digest, is born | |
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1982 - The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington. 1945 - Truman announces inquiry into Jewish settlement in Palestine. 1942 - The minimum draft age was lowered from 21 to 18 in the U.S. 1940 - Willys-Overland completes original Jeep prototype. 1927 - The Holland Tunnel under the Hudson River opens to the public, connecting New York City and New Jersey. | |
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1985 - Volcano erupts in Colombia and buries nearby towns. 1969 - Apollo 12 lifts off. 1968 - Yale University goes Co-ed. 1967 - Maj. Gen. Bruno Hochmuth killed in Vietnam. 1951 - United States gives military and economic aid to communist Yugoslavia. 1914 - The first Dodge 1832 - The first streetcar went into operation. | |
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1977 - President Carter hosts shah of Iran 1977 - The 100,000,000th U.S.-built Ford 1956 - Elvis' first film opens 1926 - NBC radio network's grand opening 1917 - Georges Clemenceau named French prime minister 1889 - Brazil's last emperor deposed | |
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1973 - Nixon supports construction of the Alaskan oil pipeline 1988 - Benazir Bhutto elected leader of Pakistan 1945 - German scientists brought to United States to work on rocket technology 1907 - Oklahoma enters the Union | |
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1994 - Sony writes off Columbia 1970 - First wheeled-vehicle on the moon 1906 - Honda founder born in Hamamatsu, Japan 1869 - Suez Canal opens | |
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1969 - Joe Kennedy dies 1960 - Chrysler limits DeSoto production 1928 - Mickey Mouse debuts | |
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1985 - Reagan and Gorbachev hold their first summit meeting 1977 - Egyptian president Anwar el-Sadat visits Israel 1831 - President Garfield is born in Ohio. | |
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1967 - Product Safety Commission established 1948 - American consul in China held "hostage" by communists 1945 - Nuremberg war-crimes trials begin | |
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1975 - Congressional report charges U.S. involvement in assassination plots in
Cuba, Vietnam, Chili, Congo and Dominican Republic 1970 - Ford Mustang Boss 351 debuts 1941 - Nazi chief architect requests POWs to labor for a new Berlin 1916 - Britannic sinks in Aegean Sea 1916 - Emperor Franz Josef of Austria dies 1877 - Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a way to record and play back sound | |
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1990 - Margaret Thatcher resigns. 1988 - Stealth bomber unveiled. 1985 - Lee Iacocca, Chrysler CEO, leads immigration ceremony. 1972 - First B-52 shot down over North Vietnam. 1963 - Kennedy becomes fourth president assassinated in Dallas, TX. 1927 - Eliason receives snowmobile patent. | |
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1981 - Reagan gives CIA authority to establish the Contras. 1980 - Southern Italy rocked by earthquake. 1940 - Romania signs the Tripartite Pact, officially allying itself with Germany, Italy, and Japan. 1804 - President Pierce is born in New Hampshire. | |
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1978 - Letterman's first Tonight Show appearance. 1971 - Hijacker "D.B. Cooper" parachutes with $200K into thunderstorm from an NWA 727. No trace of Cooper was found. 1963 - Jack Ruby kills Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin of President John F. Kennedy 1944 - U.S. B-29s raid Tokyo. 1922 - Irish author and nationalist executed. 1888 - Dale Carnegie, author of the business and people skills bible "How to Win Friends and Influence People" is born. 1868 - Composer Scott Joplin, the "King of Ragtime," is born in Texarkana, Arkansas. 1784 - President Taylor is born in Virginia. | |
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1996 - Dow sets new 6.500 point record for the first time in history 1994 - Founder Akio Morita announced his decision to step down as CEO of Sony 1986 - Iran-Contra connection revealed 1967 - Catholic official reports support provided to North Vietnam 1963 - Kennedy laid to rest at Arlington 1941 - A "war warning" of Pearl Harbor attack is sent to commanders in the Pacific 1920 - Gaston Chevrolet, the younger brother of famous automobile designer and racer Louis Chevrolet, was killed during a race 1783 - Last British soldiers leave New York | |
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1990 - Matsushita buys MCA $6.6 billion 1965 - France successfully launches the Asterix-1 satellite into space with a Diamant-A rocket, becoming the world's fourth space power after the Russia, the US, and Canada. 1941 - Japanese task force leaves for Pearl Harbor 1941 - Archaeologists enter King Tutankhamen's tomb in more than 3,000 years 1927 - Ford Model A is announced 1922 - Technicolor debuts | |
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1995 - AmHS/Premier and Sun Health Alliance announced their plans to merge becoming a healthcare titans. 1940 - Iron Guard massacres former Romanian government. 1940 - Bruce Lee is born | |
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1989 - Czechoslovakian Communist Party gives up monopoly on political power. 1979 - A New Zealander sightseeing plane traveling over Antarctica crashes, killing all 257 people on board. 1954 - Nobel Prize-winning physicist Enrico Fermi, architect of the nuclear age, dies in Chicago at the age of 53. 1943 - FDR attends Tehran Conference. 1942 - The first Ford bomber, B-24 Liberator, is produced. 1895 - First gas-powered race is run. 1582 - William Shakespeare marries Anne Hathaway. | |
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1996 - Volkswagen executive resigns under espionage charges. VW would pay General Motors
$100 million and agreed to buy at least $1 billion in parts from GM. 1973 - Auto giant Chrysler Corp. announced plans to halt production at seven plants. 1967 - McNamara resigns as Secretary of Defense. 1948 - First all-Australian automobile is unveiled. 1942 - Coffee joins the list of items rationed in the United States. 1929 - Richard Byrd and three companions make the first flight over the South Pole. | |
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1995 - Justice Dept. indicts 11 brokers, who had developed an elaborate scheme to swipe large sums from their clients' holdings. 1960 - The first Scout all-terrain vehicle is produced 1939 - USSR attacks Finland. 1874 - Winston Churchill is born. 1835 - Mark Twain, a famous 19th century novelist, is born. 1782 - The United Stated and Great Britain sign a peace treaty in Paris, formally ending the Revolutionary War. | |
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