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Jenkins was failing on usr.bin/calendar/calendar.c:386:6: with "error: 'fd' may be used uninitialized in this function" when the level of error checking was turned up. The error was recently fixed upstream. This commit updates calendar.c to upstream rev 1.50, updates calendar files too. Change-Id: Ibe0695bf5d0315972f2a4fb1175219dd12cbfa5a
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01/01 Julian Calendar takes effect, 45 BC
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01/01 Haitian Independence Proclaimed, 1803
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01/01 Emancipation Proclamation enters effect, 1863
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01/01 United Nations created, 1942
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01/02 Reconquest of Spain completed, 1492
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01/02 Russian Fleet surrenders to Japan at Port Arthur, 1905
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01/03 Martin Luther excommunicated, 1521
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01/03 Emperor Meiji Restored to throne in Japan, 1868
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01/04 Single European Currency debuts, 1999
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01/04 New York Stock Exchange opens first permanent headquarters, 1865
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01/04 Burma becomes independent, 1948
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01/05 Prague Spring begins, 1968
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01/05 -50 degrees F, Strawberry UT, 1913
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01/05 The FCC hears the first demonstration of FM radio, 1940
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01/06 Harold Godwinson crowned King Harold II of England, 1066
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01/06 Electric Telegraph first tested by Samuel Morse, 1838
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01/07 Pol Pot overthrown, 1979
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01/07 Calais, last continental holding of England, falls to France, 1558
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01/08 Major General Andrew Jackson leads US troops to victory at
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Battle of New Orleans, 1815
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01/09 Cruise ship RMS Queen Elizabeth destroyed by fire, 1972
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01/10 First meeting of United Nations General Assembly in London, 1946
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01/10 Thomas Paine's Common Sense published, 1776
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01/10 League of Nations instituted, 1920
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01/10 Lend-Lease Act introduced, 1941
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01/11 Milk delivered in bottles for first time, 1878
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01/11 Amelia Earhart flies from Hawaii to California, 1935
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01/12 Zulu War begins, 1879
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01/12 Siege of Leningrad ends, 1943
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01/12 Santa Clara, California founded, 1777
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01/13 First live radio concert broadcast, by Enrico Caruso,
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broadcast from New York, 1910
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01/14 United Nations condemns Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, 1980
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01/14 Treaty of Paris ratified by Continental Congress, officially
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establishing independent United States, 1784
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01/15 Elizabeth I crowned Queen of England, 1559
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01/16 Prohibition takes effect, 1919
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01/16 Reza Shah Pallavi flees Iran, 1979
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01/16 First Persian Gulf War begins, 1991
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01/16 Chevy Corvette introduced, 1953
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01/17 Over $2 million stolen in "Great Brinks Robbery" in Boston, 1950
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01/18 James Cook discovers Hawaii, 1778
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01/18 Robert Falcon Scott reaches South Pole, 1912
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01/18 First Australian penal colony established, 1788
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01/19 Indira Ghandi becomes Prime Minister of India, 1966
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01/19 First college basketball game played, Chicago beats Iowa 15-12, 1896
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01/20 Hong Kong ceded to Britain, 1841
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01/20 US Hostages released from Iran, 1981
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01/21 First commercial flight of Concorde SST, 1976
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01/21 King Louis XVI executed, 1793
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01/22 First British colonists arrive in New Zealand, 1840
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01/22 First Russian Revolution begins, 1905
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01/22 Battle of Tobruk concludes, 1941
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01/23 USS Pueblo seized by North Korea, 1968
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01/23 First insulin injection for diabetes, 1922
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01/23 Peace treaty ending Vietnam war announced, 1973
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01/24 Eskimo Pie patented by Christian Nelson, 1922
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01/24 Joseph Marshall finds Gold at Sutter's Mill in California, 1848
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01/24 Last IJA soldier captured in Guam, 1972
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01/24 The Pleasure Garden, first Alfred Hitchcock film opens in London, 1927
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01/25 First Winter Olympics held in Charmonix, 1924
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01/25 Reporter Nellie Bly arrives in New York, completing
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circumnavigation of the globe in 72 days, 6 hours, 11
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minutes, 1890
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01/26 Republic of India founded, 1950
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01/26 Barcelona falls to Nationalist forces, 1939
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01/26 Auschwitz liberated, 1945
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01/26 Sydney settled, 1788
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01/27 Somali dictator Muhammad Siyad Barre flees country, 1991
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01/27 Grissom, White and Chaffe die in fire aboard Apollo I, 1967
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01/27 Paris Peace Accords signed, ending Vietnam War, 1973
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01/28 Space Shuttle Challenger (51-L) explodes 74 seconds after liftoff
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killing Scobee, Smith, McNair, Resnick, Jarvis, Onizuka and McAuliffe,
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1986
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01/29 Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove premieres, 1964
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01/30 Mohandas Gandhi assassinated in New Delhi, 1948
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01/30 King Charles I executed by Cromwell's forces, 1649
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01/30 Tet Offensive begins, 1968
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01/31 "Ham" the chimpanzee soars into space aboard Mercury-Redstone 2, 1961
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01/31 Explorer I launched, resulting in discovery of Van Allen Belt, 1958
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02/01 "Secret Storm", first TV soap opera airs, 1954
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02/01 Forces lead by the Ayatollah Khomeini take over Iran, 1979
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02/01 Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-107) disintegrates over Texas
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during re-entry killing Husband, Anderson, Brown, Chawla,
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Clark, McCool, Ramon, 2003
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02/01 First session of the United States Supreme Court, 1790
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02/01 First automobile insurance policy issued by Travellers
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Insurance of Hartford, CT, 1898
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02/01 Land battle of Guadalcanal ends with Japanese evacuation after
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seven months of fighting, 1943
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02/02 Mexican-American war ends with signing of Treaty of Guadalupe
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Hidalgo, 1848
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02/02 Last German troops in Stalingrad surrender, 1943
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02/03 Soviet probe Lunik 9 makes first controlled landing on Moon, 1966
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02/03 Sixteenth Amendment to US Constitution, establishing first Federal
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Income Tax, takes effect, 1913
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02/04 George Washington elected first President of the United States, 1789
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02/04 Confederate States of America formed, 1861
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02/04 Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin meet at Yalta to determine
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shape of post-war Europe, 1945
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02/04 Cybernet inaugurated, 1969
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02/04 James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans published, 1826
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02/05 New Mexican Constitution proclaimed, founding modern nation
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of Mexico, 1917
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02/05 First Walk/Don't Walk sign installed, New York City, 1952
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02/05 Last Soviet troops pull out of Kabul, 1989
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02/06 John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men published, 1937
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02/07 Beatles arrive in New York, 1964
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02/07 Great Baltimore Fire begins, 1904
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02/07 Bruce McCandless completes first untethered spacewalk, 1984
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02/07 Maastricht Treaty signed, establishing European Union, 1992
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02/07 Soviet Communist Party relinquishes monopoly on political power, 1990
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02/08 Mary Queen of Scots beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle, 1587
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02/08 Russo-Japanese war begins with surprise naval attack on
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Port Arthur by Japanese forces, 1904
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02/09 First US combat troops arrive in Vietnam, 1965
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02/09 -51 degrees F, Vanderbilt MI, 1934
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02/10 Seven Years' War ends, 1763
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02/11 Japan becomes fourth nation to complete successful space
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launch, 1970
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02/11 Nelson Mandela freed, 1990
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02/12 Last Emperor of China abdicates throne, 1912
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02/12 Anatoly Scharansky released from Soviet prison camp, 1986
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02/12 George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue debuts, 1924
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02/13 William and Mary proclaimed King and Queen of England after
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Glorious Revolution, 1689
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02/14 Sandinistas agree to free elections in Nicaragua, 1989
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02/14 Battle of the Kasserine Pass, 1943
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02/15 Singapore surrenders to Japanese forces, 1942
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02/15 USS Maine explodes in Havana harbor, leading to Spanish-American
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war, 1898
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02/15 Canadian Maple-Leaf Flag adopted, 1965
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02/16 Nylon patented, 1937
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02/16 Raiding party led by Stephen Decatur burns captured US
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frigate in Tripoli harbor, 1804
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02/16 Fidel Castro sworn in as Prime Minister of Cuba, 1959
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02/17 China invades Vietnam, resulting in nine days of fighting
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before Chinese retreat, 1979
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02/18 Charleston, SC surrendered to Union forces, 1865
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02/18 Pluto discovered by Clyde Tombaugh, Lowell Observatory, AZ, 1930
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02/19 US Marines land on Iwo Jima, 1945
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02/19 First prototype Ford Thunderbird completed, 1954
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02/19 Donner Party rescued after four months, 1847
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02/20 John Glenn orbits the Earth 3 times, 1962
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02/21 Battle of Verdun begins, 1916
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02/21 First telephone directory, New Haven, Connecticut, 1878
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02/21 Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto published, 1848
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02/21 Richard Nixon arrives in China for historic eight-day visit, 1972
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02/22 Walt Disney's Cinderella opens, 1950
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02/23 US Flag raised over Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima, 1945
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02/24 Impeachment proceedings against Andrew Johnson begin, 1868
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02/24 Tet Offensive ends with recapture of Hue by US and South
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Vietnamese forces, 1968
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02/24 Ground offensive begins in first Gulf War, 1991
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02/25 Ferdinand Marcos flees the Philippines, 1986
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02/25 Bloodless coup leads to Communist government in Czechoslovakia, 1948
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02/26 World Trade Center bombed, killing 6, 1993
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02/26 Free elections held in Nicaragua, Sandinistas ousted, 1990
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02/27 Reichstag building burns, 1933
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02/27 Kuwait liberated, ending offensive ground operations in First Gulf War, 1991
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02/28 The "French Connection" drug bust occurs in Marseilles, 1972
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02/29 French and Indian raid on Deerfield MA kills 56 as part of
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Queen Anne's War, 1704
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03/01 Yellowstone National Park established by President Grant, 1872
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03/01 Peace Corps established by President Kennedy, 1961
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03/01 Twenty-month-old son of Charles Lindbergh kidnapped and killed, 1932
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03/02 Texas declares independence from Mexico, 1836
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03/02 Importation of slaves into United States prohibited, 1807
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03/02 Pioneer 10 launched to explore Jupiter and beyond, 1973
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03/02 Soviet and Chinese troops clash along Ussuri river, 1969
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03/03 Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ends Russian participation in First
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World War, 1918
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03/03 Finland declares war on Germany, 1945
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03/04 United States Constitution takes effect, and Congress meets
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in New York, 1789
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03/05 British troops fire into snowball-throwing crowd in Boston
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Massacre, 1770
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03/06 Alamo falls to forces of Mexican General Santa Anna after
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13 days of siege, 1836
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03/06 Dutch Resistance ambush, kill SS Lt. General Hanns Rauter
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in Apeldoorn, 1945
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03/07 Nazi forces re-militarize Rheinland in violation of Treaty
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of Versailles and Locarno Pact, 1936
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03/07 Sheikh Mujib Rahman becomes first elected leader of
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Bangladesh, 1973
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03/08 `February Revolution' in Russia begins on February 23 of
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calendar then in use in Russia, 1917
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03/08 Dutch forces on Java surrender to the Japanese, 1942
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03/09 USS Monitor battles CSS Virginia (USS Merrimac) in world's
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first battle between ironclad warships, 1862
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03/09 Former Last Emperor of China becomes regent of Japanese
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puppet state of Manchukuo, 1932
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03/09 US forces land at Vera Cruz in largest amphibious landing
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before World War II, 1847
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03/10 Alexander Graham Bell conducts first successful telephone
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experiment, 1876
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03/10 Jan Masaryk dead in Czechoslovakia in reported suicide, 1948
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03/11 Lend-Lease Act signed, 1941
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03/11 Mikhail Gorbachev becomes Premier of USSR, 1985
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03/11 Lithuania declares independence from USSR, 1990
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03/12 Austria annexed by Germany, 1938
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03/12 Mahatma Ghandi begins march to sea in protest of British Salt Tax, 1930
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03/13 Uranus discovered by William Hershel, 1781
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03/13 Tsar Alexander II of Russia assassinated, 1881
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03/15 Tsar Nicholas II abdicates throne of Russia, 1917
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03/16 Robert Goddard launches first liquid-fueled rocket, Auburn MA, 1926
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03/17 Vanguard I launched, 1958. Earth proved pear-shaped
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03/18 Aleksei Leonov performs first spacewalk, 1965
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03/24 Construction of New York subway system begins, 1900
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03/26 Popeye statue unveiled, Crystal City TX Spinach Festival, 1937
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03/27 Khrushchev becomes Premier of Soviet Union, 1958
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03/29 Swedish settled Christiana (Wilmington) DE, 1638
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03/30 Alaska purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, 1867
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03/30 Five rings around Uranus discovered, 1977
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03/30 Pencil with eraser patented, 1858
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03/31 Pioneer 10 mission ends, having travelled 6 billion miles
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and provided close-up pictures of Jupiter and first data on
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interstellar space, 1997
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04/04 Martin Luther King assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, 1968
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04/04 NATO Established, 1949
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04/05 US nationalises Gold at a value of $20.67, 1933
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04/06 Joseph Smith founds Mormon Church, 1830
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04/09 Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, 1865
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04/12 Confederate troops fire first shots of Civil War at Ft Sumter, 1861
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04/12 Space Shuttle Columbia launched, 1981
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04/12 Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space, 1961
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04/14 Lincoln shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth, 1865
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04/14 Titanic hits iceberg and sinks, 1912
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04/15 Ray Kroc opens first McDonalds in Des Plaines, IL, 1955
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04/18 First Laundromat opens, Fort Worth Texas, 1934
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04/18 San Francisco earthquake, 1906
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04/19 Warsaw Ghetto uprising, 1943
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04/23 Hank Aaron hits his first home run, 1954
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04/26 William Shakespeare baptised in Stratford-on-Avon, England, 1564,
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birthdate unknown
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04/27 Magellan killed in Philippines, 1521
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04/29 Zipper patented by Gideon Sindback, 1913
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05/06 Hindenburg explodes and burns upon landing at Lakehurst, NJ, 1939
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05/07 Germany surrenders after WWII, 1945
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05/09 94 degrees, New York, 1979
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05/10 Germany invades Low Countries, 1940
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05/10 Nazi bookburning, 1933
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05/14 Beginning of Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804
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05/14 Nation of Israel proclaimed, 1948
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05/15 Asylum for Inebriates founded, Binghamton NY, 1854
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05/17 24" rain in 11 hours, Pearl River, S. China, 1982
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05/18 Battle of Las Piedras in Uruguay
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05/18 Napoleon crowned Emperor, 1804
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05/21 Battle of Iquique in Chile
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05/21 US explodes first hydrogen bomb, 1956
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05/22 US Civil War ends, 1865
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05/23 Israeli raid into Argentina to capture Adolf Eichmann, 1960
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05/24 Battle of Pinchincha in Ecuador
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05/25 Successful test of the limelight in Purfleet, England, 1830
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05/27 Golden Gate Bridge opens, 1937
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05/29 Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norkay climb Mt. Everest, 1953
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06/04 Roquefort cheese developed, 1070
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06/05 Robert Kennedy assassinated, 1968
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08/15 US leaves the Gold Standard, 1971
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06/06 First drive-in movie, 1933
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06/06 Normandy landing, 1944
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06/10 Death of Alexander the Great, 323 B.C.
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06/13 Pioneer 10 flies past Neptune's orbit, the first human artifact
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to travel beyond the orbits of all known planets, 1983
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06/14 Sandpaper invented by I. Fischer, Jr., 1834
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06/15 Ben Franklin's kite experiment, 1752
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06/15 Magna Carta signed, 1215
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06/15 Series of photographs by Edward Muggeridge prove to Leland Stanford
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that all the hooves of a horse are off the ground during the gallop,
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1878
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06/16 "The Blues Brothers" premieres in Chicago, 1980
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06/17 China explodes its first Hydrogen bomb, 1967
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06/19 Lizzie Borden acquitted, 1893
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06/20 Victoria crowned, 1837
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06/21 Berlin airlift begins, 1948
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06/23 Slavery abolished in England, 1772
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06/25 Custer's Last Stand at Little Big Horn, 1876
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06/25 North Korea invades South Korea, 1950
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06/26 Battle of Gettysburg, 1863
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06/26 St. Lawrence Seaway dedicated by Eisenhower & Queen Elizabeth II, 1959
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06/26 Toothbrush invented, 1498
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06/27 100 degrees, Fort Yukon, 1915
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06/28 Supreme Court decides in favor of Alan Bakke, 1978
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06/30 "That" explosion in Siberia, 1908
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06/30 China and Soviet Union announce split over ideology, 1960
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07/01 Battle of Gettysburg begins, 1863
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07/04 Battles of Vicksburg and Gettysburg won by Union forces, 1863
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07/04 Cloudy, 76 degrees, Philadelphia PA, 1776
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07/04 New York abstains on Declaration of Independence vote, 1776
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07/04 Thoreau enters woods, 1845
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07/06 First `talkie' (talking motion picture) premiere in New York, 1928
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07/06 Lawrence of Arabia captures Aqaba, 1917
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07/07 First radio broadcast of "Dragnet", 1949
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07/08 First public reading of the Declaration of Independence, 1776
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07/08 Liberty Bell cracks while being rung at funeral of John Marshall, 1835
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07/09 10-hour working day set by law, NH, 1847
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07/10 134 degrees in Death Valley, 1913
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07/13 Women first compete in Olympic games, 1908
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07/16 Detonation of the first atomic bomb at Alamogordo, NM, 1945
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07/17 Disneyland opens, 1955
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07/18 Ty Cobb gets 4000th base hit, 1927
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07/20 Armstrong and Aldrin land on moon, 1969
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07/21 First Train Robbery, Jesse James gets $3000 near Adair, Iowa, 1873
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07/23 Ice cream cone introduced, St. Louis MO, 1904
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07/24 Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
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07/30 "In God We Trust" made U.S. motto, 1956
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07/31 Harry S. Truman dedicates N.Y. Int'l Airport @ Idlewild Field, 1948,
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later JFK
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08/03 Columbus sets sail for Cathay, 1492
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08/03 USS Nautilus crosses under north polar ice cap, 1958
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08/04 Axe murder of Andrew and Abbey Borden, 1892
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08/04 Britain declares war on Germany starting World War I, 1914
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08/06 Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, 1945
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08/06 Caricom in Barbados
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08/06 Cy Young pitches first game, 1890
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08/08 Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, 1945
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08/08 Montenegro declares war on Germany, 1914
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08/08 Richard Nixon resigns the US presidency, 1974
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08/08 The Great Train Robbery -- $7,368,000, 1963
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08/09 Helter Skelter... the Charles Manson murders take place, 1969
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08/09 Persia defeats Spartan King Leonidas at Thermopylae, 480 BC
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08/09 US/Canada border defined in the Webster-Ashburton Treaty, 1842
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08/10 Chicago incorporated as a village of 300 people, 1833
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08/10 US and Panama agree to transfer the canal in the year 2000, 1977
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08/11 France Ends War in Indochina, 1954
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08/12 First test flight of Space Shuttle "Enterprise" from 747, 1977
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08/12 Last U.S. ground troops out of Vietnam, 1972
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08/13 Berlin wall erected, 1961
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08/13 Li'l Abner debut, 1934
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08/14 Social Security begins in U.S., 1935
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08/15 Gandhi's movement obtains independence for Pakistan and India, 1947
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08/15 Hurricane hits Plimoth Plantation, 1635
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08/16 Roller Coaster patented, 1898
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08/17 First public bath opened in N.Y., 1891
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08/18 Anti-Cigarette League of America formed
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08/19 Air Force cargo plane snares payload from Discoverer 14 spy satellite,
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marking start of practical military reconnaissance from space, 1960
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08/19 Gail Borden patents condensed milk, 1856
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08/22 Death of King Richard III, 1485, Last of the Plantagenets
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08/22 Joe Walker sets X-15 all time altitude mark (67 miles), 1963
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08/22 St. Columbia reports seeing monster in Loch Ness, 565
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08/24 "Alice's Restaurant" premieres in New York and Los Angeles, 1969
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08/24 -126.9 F at Vostok, Antarctica, 1960
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08/24 British troops burn Washington, 1814
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08/25 Gen. DeGaulle leads French forces into Paris, 1944
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08/26 Women get the right to vote, Nineteenth Amendment to US Constitution
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becomes law, 1920
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08/27 Edgar Rice Burroughs' "Tarzan of the Apes" published, 1912
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08/27 Krakatoa, Java explodes with a force of 1,300 megatons, 1883
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08/28 King leads over 200K in civil rights rally in Washington, DC, 1963
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08/29 Star in Cygnus goes nova and becomes 4th brightest in sky, 1975;
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Nova Cygni 1975.
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08/30 Japan Stationery Co. sells first felt-tipped pen, 1960
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08/30 Washington-to-Moscow hot line connected, 1963
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08/31 269 people killed after Korean Airlines 747 shot down by USSR, 1983
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08/31 Mary Anne Nichols becomes Jack the Ripper's first victim, 1888
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08/31 Non-aggression pact signed by USSR and Afghanistan, 1926
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09/01 Bobby Fischer defeats Boris Spassky in World Chess Match, 1972
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09/01 Joshua A. Norton proclaims himself 'Emperor Norton I', 1859
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09/02 Great Britain adopts Gregorian Calendar, 1752
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09/02 Japan signs unconditional surrender on US battleship `Missouri', 1945
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09/05 The first Continental Congress was convened in Philadelphia, 1774
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09/06 149 Pilgrims set forth from England aboard the Mayflower, 1620
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09/06 First Star Trek episode (The Man Trap) aired 1966
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09/06 Pres. McKinley shot, 1901
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09/08 "Star Trek" debuts on NBC (1966)
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09/08 Jack the Ripper kills again, Annie Chapman is second victim, 1888
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09/08 President Ford pardons Richard M. Nixon, 1974
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09/09 California becomes the 31st state, 1850
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09/09 United Colonies is renamed the United States, 1776
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09/11 Twin Towers fall in terrorist attacks, 2001
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09/12 German paratroopers rescue Mussolini from captivity in Rome, 1943
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09/12 Germany annexes Sudetenland, 1938
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09/13 136.4 F at el Azizia, Libya, 1922
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09/13 British defeat the French at Abraham near Quebec City, 1788
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09/13 Building of Hadrian's Wall begun, 122
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09/13 Chiang Kai-Shek becomes president of China, 1943
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09/14 Benjamin Franklin is sent to France as an American minister, 1778
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09/14 Salem, Massachusetts, is founded, 1629
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09/14 The Selective Service Act establishes the first peacetime draft, 1940
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09/15 Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev begins his 13 day tour of the US, 1959
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09/15 The U.S. Foreign Affairs Dept. becomes the U.S. State Department, 1789
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09/16 The village of Shawmut, Massachusetts, becomes the city of Boston, 1630
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09/17 Battle of Antietam, 1862
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09/20 Equal Rights Party nominates Belva Lockwood for President, 1884
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09/20 First meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of
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Science, 1848
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09/20 First meeting of the National Research Council, 1916
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09/20 Magellan leaves Spain on the first Round the World passage, 1519
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09/20 The Roxy Theater opens in Hollywood, 1973
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09/22 Allied forces form the independent nation West Germany, 1953
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09/22 President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation, 1862
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09/22 The first Soviet atomic bomb explodes, 1949
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09/23 Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos declares martial law, 1972
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09/23 The New York Knickerbockers becomes the first U.S. Baseball club, 1845
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09/25 Sandra Day O'Connor becomes first woman on US Supreme Court, 1981
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09/27 The first passenger was hauled in a locomotive in England, 1825
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09/28 John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" published, 1678
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09/28 A Greek soldier runs 26+ miles after the Persian defeat at Marathon,
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490BC
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09/30 Red Jack kills 2, Elizabeth Stride (\#3) and Catherine Eddowes (\#4),
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1888
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09/30 The first tooth is extracted under anesthesia in Charleston, Mass, 1846
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09/30 The verdicts of the Nuremberg trials are announced, 1946
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10/01 NASA officially begins operations, 1958
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10/02 Thurgood Marshall sworn in as the first black Supreme Court Justice, 1967
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10/04 Crimean war begins, 1853
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10/04 Sputnik 1, world's first orbiting satellite launched, 1957
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10/06 Antioch College is the first public school to admit men and women, 1853
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10/06 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is assassinated in Cairo, 1981
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10/06 Israel is attacked by the alliance of Egypt and Syria, 1973
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10/07 Foundation of the German Democratic Republic in 1949
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10/07 Georgia Tech. beats Cumberland Univ. 222-0, 1916
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10/07 Mother Teresa of Calcutta awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, 1979
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10/08 Great Chicago Fire, 1871
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10/09 First two-way telephone conversation, 1876
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10/11 "Saturday Night Live" premiers on NBC-TV, 1975
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10/11 The Gang of Four are arrested in Peking, 1976
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10/11 The first steam powered ferry ran between New York and Hoboken, 1811
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10/11 The second Vatican Ecumenical Council opens in Rome, 1962
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10/12 Bahama Natives discover Columbus of Europe lost on their shores, 1492
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10/12 Khrushchev pounds his desk with shoe during a speech to the UN, 1960
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10/12 Man O'War's last race, 1920
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10/13 Italy declares war on Germany, 1943
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10/13 U.S. Navy born, 1775, authorized by the Second Continental Congress
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10/14 Battle of Hastings won by William the Conqueror and the Normans, 1066
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10/14 Chuck Yeager breaks sound barrier, 1947
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10/18 Boston Shoemakers form first U.S. labor org., 1648
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10/18 Soviets announce their probe took photos of the Moon's far side, 1959
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10/19 Mao Tse-tung establishes the People's Republic of China, 1949
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10/19 Napoleon's beaten army begins the long retreat from Moscow, 1812
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10/20 OPEC embargo, 1973
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10/21 Edison makes the first practical incandescent lamp, 1879
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10/21 Guggenheim Museum opens, 1959
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10/23 Battle of Leyte Gulf begins, 1944
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10/25 The UN removes Taiwan and admits the People's Republic of China, 1971
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10/26 UN's World Health Organization declares smallpox eradicated, 1978
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10/27 New York's Boss Tweed is arrested on fraud charges, 1871
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10/27 The first New York Subway is opened, 1904
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10/28 Columbus discovers Cuba, 1492
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10/28 Constantine's army defeats forces of Maxentius at Mulvian Bridge, 312
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10/28 Harvard was founded in Massachusetts, 1636
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10/28 Statue of Liberty was dedicated on Bedloe's Island, 1886
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10/29 Stock Market Crash, 1929
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10/30 Orson Welles' "War of the Worlds" broadcast, 1938
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10/31 Luther nails 95 Theses to door of Castle Church, Wittenberg, 1517
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11/01 Austria-Hungary become two separate nations, 1918
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11/02 Luftwaffe completes 57 consecutive nights of bombing of London, 1940
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11/02 Two Frenchmen make the first free hot air balloon flight, 1783
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11/03 Beef rises to 3 cents a pound, IL, 1837
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11/03 Linus Pauling wins Nobel Chemistry Prize, 1954
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11/03 Sputnik II launched, 1957, bearing spacedog Laika
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11/04 Iranian militants seize US embassy personnel in Teheran, 1979
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11/04 Soviet forces crush the anti-communist revolt in Hungary, 1956
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11/05 Guy Fawkes' Plot, 1605
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11/06 Anniversary of the October Socialist Revolution (2 days) in U.S.S.R.
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11/07 Lewis and Clark Expedition in sight of the Pacific Ocean, 1805
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11/09 Blackout of New York, New England, and Eastern Canada, 1965
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11/09 Giant panda discovered (?!), China, 1927
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11/09 Jack the Ripper kills fifth and final victim, Jane Kelly, 1888
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11/09 Roosevelt establishes the Civil Works Administration, 1933
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11/10 41 Women arrested in suffragette demonstrations near White House, 1917
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11/10 Cpt. Wirz, commandant of Andersonville Prison hanged, 1865
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11/10 Henry Morton Stanley asks David Livingstone, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?", 1871
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11/11 Washington becomes the 42nd state, 1889
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11/12 Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Birthday in Taiwan
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11/12 U.S. first exports oil to Europe, 1861
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11/15 Niagara Falls power plant startup, 1896
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11/16 Opening of the Suez Canal, 1869
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11/17 46,000 meteoroids fall over AZ in 20 minutes, 1966
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11/18 First hydrogen bomb blasts Enewetok, 1952
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11/18 Local standard time zones established for US, 1883
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11/19 Gettysburg Address delivered, 1863
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11/22 Kennedy shot in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald, 1963
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11/23 First broadcast of Dr. Who, 1963
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11/24 Lee Harvey Oswald killed by Jack Ruby, 1963
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11/25 Alfred Nobel invents dynamite, 1867
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11/27 Alfred Nobel establishes Nobel Prize, 1895
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11/27 Friction match invented, England, 1826
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11/27 Hoosac Railroad Tunnel completed, 1873, in NW Massachusetts
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11/29 King Tut's tomb opened, 1922
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12/01 Martin Luther King Jr., leads black boycott of Montgomery buses, 1955
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12/01 Rosa Parks refuses to move to back of the bus (Montgomery, AL), 1953
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12/03 First neon light display, Paris, 1910
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12/03 First successful human heart transplant led by Dr. Barnard, 1967
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12/04 Washington takes leave of his officers at Fraunce's Tavern, NYC, 1783
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12/05 End of Prohibition, 1933 (at least the alcohol part)
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12/05 Phi Beta Kappa founded, 1776
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12/05 The Eighteenth Amendment repealed, ending Prohibition, 1933
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12/07 Japan bombs Pearl Harbor, 1941
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12/09 Ball-bearing roller skates patented, 1884
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12/10 Metric system established in France, 1799
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12/12 First wireless message sent across Atlantic by Marconi, 1901
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12/13 Apollo 17 leaves the moon, with "last" men to walk on moon aboard, 1972
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12/13 Dartmouth College chartered, 1769
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12/15 Bill of Rights adopted, 1791
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12/15 James Naismith invents basketball, Canada, 1891
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12/16 Kazakhstan declares independence from USSR, 1991
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12/20 U.S. buys ~1,000,000 sq. miles of Louisiana for ~$20/sq.mi.
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12/27 Ether first used as anesthetic in childbirth, 1845
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12/28 Comet Kohoutek at perihelion, 1973
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12/29 Massacre at Wounded Knee, 1890
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12/30 First Los Angeles freeway dedicated, 1940
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