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01/01 Anniversary of the Triumph of the Revolution in Cuba
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01/01 Castro expells Cuban President Batista, 1959
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01/01 Churchill delivers his "Iron Curtain" speech, 1947
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01/01 First Rose Bowl; Michigan 49 - Stanford 0, 1902
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01/04 Quadrantid meteor shower (look north)
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01/05 -50 degrees F, Strawberry UT, 1913
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01/05 Fellowship enters Moria (LOTR)
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01/05 The FCC hears the first demonstration of FM radio, 1940
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01/05 Twelfth night
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01/06 Millard Fillmore's birthday (let's party!)
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01/08 Battle of New Orleans
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01/09 Fellowship reaches Lorien (LOTR)
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01/09 Plough Monday
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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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01/11 Anniversary of the Peoples Republic of Albania
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01/11 De Hostos' Birthday in Puerto Rico
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01/11 Milk delivered in bottles for first time, 1878
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01/11 Prithvi Jayanti in Nepal
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01/11 Surgeon General condemned cigarettes, 1964
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01/11 The Whiskey-A-Go-Go opens on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, 1963
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01/14 The first "Be-In" is held in Golden Gate Park, 1967
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01/16 Prohibition begins, 1920
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01/17 Passing of Gandalf (LOTR)
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01/18 Grey whale migration, California
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01/20 St. Agnes Eve (Ah, bitter chill it was...)
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01/24 Eskimo Pie patented by Christian Nelson, 1922
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01/24 Gold discovered in California at Sutter's Mill, 1848
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01/26 Sydney Aust. settled, 1788
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01/27 Grissom, White and Chaffe burned to death in Apollo 1, 1967
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01/27 Vietnam War cease-fire signed, 1973
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01/28 First ski tow, Woodstock VT, 1914
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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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01/30 Mohandas Gandhi assassinated in New Delhi by Hindu fanatic, 1948
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01/30 Tet Offensive, 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, 1958. Van Allen Belt discovered
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01/31 Irving Langmuir, 1881, invented tungsten filament lamp
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02/01 First TV soap: Secret Storm, 1954
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02/01 Forces lead by Khomeini take over Iran, 1979
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02/04 Cybernet inaugurated, 1969
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02/04 Patricia Hearst kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army, 1974
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02/07 Fellowship leaves Lorien (LOTR)
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02/08 1963 Revolution Anniversary in Iraq
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02/09 -51 degrees F, Vanderbilt MI, 1934
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02/12 Lincoln's real birthday
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02/12 Santa Barbara oil leak, 1969
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02/14 Bombing of Dresden, 1945
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02/15 Chicago Seven convicted, 1970
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02/16 Nylon patented, 1937
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02/16 Stephen Decatur burns US frigate in Tripoli, 1804
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02/17 Death of Boromir (LOTR)
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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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02/20 John Glenn orbits the Earth 3 times, 1962
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02/20 Meriadoc & Pippin meet Treebeard (LOTR)
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02/21 Battle of Verdun begins, 1916 1M casualties
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02/21 First telephone directory, New Haven, Connecticut, 1878
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02/21 Malcom X shot to death in Harlem, 1965
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02/22 Passing of King Ellesar (LOTR)
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02/23 Lt. Calley confesses, implicates Cpt. Medina, 1971
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02/24 Ents destroy Isengard (LOTR)
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02/24 Impeachment proceedings against Andrew Johnson begin, 1868
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02/26 Aragorn takes the Paths of the Dead (LOTR)
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02/27 The Lionheart crowned, 1189
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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, 1704
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03/01 Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba arrested for witchcraft
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in Salem, Massachusetts, 1692
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03/02 Blackthorn winds (New England) (Does anyone know what this is?)
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03/04 First meeting of Congress, 1789, in N.Y.C.
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03/05 Frodo & Samwise encounter Shelob (LOTR)
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03/06 Hindenburg explodes and burns upon landing at Lakehurst, NJ, 1939
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03/08 Deaths of Denethor & Theoden (LOTR)
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03/13 "Striptease" introduced, Paris, 1894
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03/14 Teddy Roosevelt excludes Japanese laborers from continental US, 1907
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03/15 Buzzards return to Hinckley OH
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03/15 France assumes protectorate over Vietnam, 1874
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03/15 Watts, Los Angeles, riots kill two, injure 25, 1966
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03/16 First liquid-fuel-powered rocket flight, 1926
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03/16 MyLai Massacre; 300 non-combatant villagers killed by U.S. infantrymen
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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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03/18 Destruction of the Ring (LOTR)
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03/19 Swallows return to Capistrano
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03/20 Radio Caroline, the original British pirate radio station, sinks, 1980
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03/24 Construction of New York subway system begins, 1900
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03/25 Triangle Shirt Waist Fire, 1911
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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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03/28 Three Mile Island releases radioactive gas, 1979
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03/29 Flowering of the Mallorn (LOTR)
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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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04/01 People of superb intelligence, savoir-faire, etc. born this day.
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04/04 Gandalf visits Bilbo (LOTR)
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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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04/06 Joseph Smith founds Mormon Church, 1830
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04/07 Albert Hofmann synthesizes LSD in Switzerland, 1943
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04/07 Alewives run, Cape Cod
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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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04/13 Laotian New Year (3 days) in Laos
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04/14 Lincoln shot, 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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04/16 Lincoln shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth, 1865
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04/17 An unexpected party (LOTR)
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04/17 Bay of Pigs invasion crushed by Castro forces, 1961
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04/18 Einstein's Death, 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 Landing of the "33" in Uruguay
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04/19 Warsaw Ghetto uprising, 1943
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04/20 Supreme Court unanimously rules in favor of busing, 1971
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04/21 Lyrid meteor shower
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04/23 Crowning of King Ellesar (LOTR)
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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 Phillippines, 1521
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04/29 Zipper patented by Gideon Sindback, 1913
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05/01 Beltaine; Feast of the god Bel, sun god
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05/03 Anti-war protest disrupts business in Washington, 1971
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05/04 Four Kent State students are shot down by the National Guard, 1970
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05/05 John Scopes arrested for teaching evolution, Dayton, TN, 1925
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05/07 Germany surrenders after WWII, 1945
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05/08 Beginning of ostrich mating season
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05/08 US institutes mining of Haiphong Harbor, 1972
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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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05/17 Six SLA members killed in televised gun fight, 1974
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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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05/19 Arwen leaves Lorian to wed King Ellesar (LOTR)
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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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05/23 Two Yetis sighted, Mt. Everest, 1953
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05/24 Battle of Pinchincha in Ecuador
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05/25 Oral Roberts sees 900 foot tall Jesus Christ, Tulsa OK, 1980
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05/25 Successful test of the limelight in Purfleet, England, 1830
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05/26 Congress sets first immigration quotas, 1924
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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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05/29 First food stamps issued, 1961
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05/30 US Marines sent to Nicaragua, 1912
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06/02 Native Americans "granted" citizenship, 1924
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06/04 Roquefort cheese developed, 1070
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06/05 Robert Kennedy assasinated, 1968
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06/05 US leaves the Gold Standard, 1933
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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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06/10 Denver police tear gas Jethro Tull and 2000 fans at Red Rocks, 1971
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06/11 Greeks seize Troy, 1184BC
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06/11 Sauron attacks Osgilliath (LOTR)
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06/13 Bilbo returns to Bag End (LOTR)
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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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06/17 Watergate Democratic National Committee break-in, 1972
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06/19 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed in Sing-Sing prison, 1953
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06/19 Lizzie Bordon 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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06/21 Sun rises over Heelstone at Stonehenge
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06/22 Civil rights workers disappear in Mississippi, 1964
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06/23 Slavery abolished in England, 1772
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06/23 Wedding of Ellesar & Arwen (LOTR)
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06/24 Senate repeals Gulf of Tonkin resolution, 1970
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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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06/27 Bill Graham closes the Fillmore East, 1971
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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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07/03 Dog days begin
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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 Gandalf imprisoned by Saruman (LOTR)
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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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07/12 Minimum wages established: 40 cents/hour, 1933
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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 Alamagordo, 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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07/19 Five Massachusetts women executed for witchcraft, 1692
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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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07/21 Vietnam divided at 17th parallel, 1954
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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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07/24 The ring comes to Bilbo (LOTR)
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07/26 Bilbo rescued from Wargs by Eagles (LOTR)
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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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08/01 Lughnasa; Feast of the god Lugh, a 30 day Celtic feast centers on
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this day
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08/03 Columbus sets sail for Cathay, 1492
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08/03 Funeral of King Theoden (LOTR)
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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 Bombing of N. Vietnam begins, 1964
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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 Dog days end
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08/11 France Ends War in Indochina, 1954
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08/11 Perseid meteor shower (look north; three days)
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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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08/23 Sacco and Vanzetti executed, 1927
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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 vote, 1920
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08/27 "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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08/29 Saruman enters the Shire (LOTR)
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08/30 75 cents a pound tariff set on opium, 1842
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08/30 Japan Stationery Co. sells first felt-tipped pen, 1960
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08/30 St. Rose of Lima in Peru
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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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09/03 Anniversary of the Founding of the Republic in San Marino
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09/05 Kennedy orders resumption of underground nuclear tests, 1961
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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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09/06 Somhlolo in Swaziland
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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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09/10 Gandalf escapes from Orthanc (LOTR)
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09/10 Mountain Meadows Massacre. Mormons kill Gentile wagon train, 1857
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09/12 German paratroopers rescue Mussolini from captivity in Rome, 1943
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09/12 Germany annexes Sudentenland, 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 Frodo & Bilbo's birthday (LOTR)
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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 Black riders enter the Shire (LOTR)
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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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09/18 Frodo and company rescued by Bombadil (LOTR)
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09/18 Victory of Uprona in Burundi
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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 Special prosecutor Leon Jeworski subpoenaes President Nixon, 1974
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09/22 The first Soviet atomic bomb explodes, 1949
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09/23 Phillippine 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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09/23 V.P. Nixon denies campaign fund fraud with his "Checkers" speech, 1952
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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 "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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09/28 Frodo wounded at Weathertop (LOTR)
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09/30 Red Jack kills 2, Elizabeth Stride (#3) and Catherine Eddowes (#4),
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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 as the first black Supreme Court Justice, 1967
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10/04 Crimean war begins, 1853
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10/04 First space vehicle, Sputnik I, launched, 1957
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10/04 Sputnik 1, world's first orbiting satellite launched, 1957
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10/05 Frodo crosses bridge of Mitheithel
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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 GDR in 1949 in German Democratic Republic
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10/07 Georgia Tech. beats Cumberland Univ. 222-0, 1916
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10/07 Maryland Governor Marvin Mandel sent to prison on fraud charges, 1977
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10/07 Mother Teresa of Calcutta awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, 1979
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10/07 Police stop Wilbur Mills car, Fanne Fox jumps into water, 1974
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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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10/10 Beginning of the Wars for Independence in Cuba
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10/10 Foundation of the Workers Party in North Korea
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10/10 Mercury at Superior Conjunction with Sun. Moves into night sky. (1984)
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10/10 Spiro T. Agnew resigns as Vice-President due to income tax fraud, 1973
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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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10/11 First broadcast of Saturday Night Live, 1975
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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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10/12 Native Americans discover Columbus of Europe lost on their shores, 1492
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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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10/15 First draft card burned, 1965
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10/16 Boromir reaches Rivendell (LOTR)
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10/17 Council of Elrond (LOTR)
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10/18 Boston Shoemakers form first U.S. labor org., 1648
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10/18 Soviets anounce 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 "Saturday Night Massacre", 1973
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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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10/23 Earth created at 6:30 AM, 4004BC.
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10/23 Swallows leave Capistrano
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10/25 End of War of the Ring (LOTR)
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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 seperate nations, 1918
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11/01 Puerto Rican nationalists try to kill Truman at the Blair House, 1950
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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 Abolitionist newspaperman Elijah P. Lovejoy murdered by mob, 1837
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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 Margaret Sanger forms American Birth Control League, 1921
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11/09 Roosevelt establishes the Civil Works Administration, 1933
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11/10 41 Women arrested in suffragette demonstartions 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 Stanley asks David Livingston, "Dr. Livingston, 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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11/14 Quarter Pounder price raised from $0.53 to $0.55 in violation of Nixon
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price controls (but okayed by Price Commission after formal request
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from McDonald's), 1971
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11/15 Niagara Falls power plant startup, 1896
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11/16 Bilbo reaches the Lonely Mountain (LOTR)
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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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11/17 Richard Nixon says "I am not a crook.", 1973
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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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11/21 Announcement of 18 1/2 minute gap on Watergate tape, 1973
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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 (longest running TV series), 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 First national corn-husking championship, Alleman IA, 1924
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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 lead by Dr. Barnard, 1967
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12/03 The Montreux Casino burns down during a Frank Zappa concert, 1971
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12/04 Washington takes leave of his officers at Fraunce's Tavern, NYC, 1783
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12/05 Death of Smaug (LOTR)
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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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12/10 Nobel Peace Prize awarded each year
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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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12/13 Geminid meteor shower (look south)
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12/15 Argo Merchant oil spill, 1976
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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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12/15 Sitting Bull shot in head while submitting to arrest, 1890
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12/16 Fellowship begins Quest (LOTR)
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12/20 U.S. buys ~1,000,000 sq. miles of Louisiana for ~$20/sq.mi.
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12/21 Phileas Fogg completes his trip around the world in less than 80 days
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12/24 KKK formed in Pulaski, Tenn, 1865
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12/26 DPMA founded, 1951
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12/27 APT report published, 1956
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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 Battle of Wounded knee, 1890
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12/30 First Los Angeles freeway dedicated, 1940
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12/31 St. Sylvester in Switzerland
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12/31 Winterland closes its doors, 1978
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