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1998 |
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U.S. authorities officially announced that Eric Rudolph was a suspect in a bombing of an abortion clinic in Alabama.
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2002 |
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Sylvester Stallone filed a lawsuit against Kenneth Starr. The suit alleged that Starr had given bad advice about selling Planet Hollywood stock. |
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1989 |
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Union Carbide agreed to pay $470 million to the government of India. The court-ordered settlement was a result of the 1984 Bhopal gas leak disaster.
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1966 |
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Rick Mount of Lebanon, IN, became the first high school, male athlete to be pictured on the cover of "Sports Illustrated". |
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1895 |
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Oscar Wilde's final play, "The Importance of Being Earnest," opened at the St. James' Theatre in London. |
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1918 |
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The motion picture "Tarzan of the Apes" was released. |
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1954 |
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The TV show "Letter to Loretta" changed its name to "The Loretta Young Show." The show premiered on September 20, 1953. |
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1957 |
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Lionel Hampton’s only major musical work, "King David," made its debut at New York’s Town Hall. |
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1962 |
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U.S. first lady Jacqueline Kennedy gave a tour of the White House on television. |
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1980 |
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Walter Cronkite announced his retirement from the "CBS Evening News." |
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1899 |
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The U.S. Congress approved voting machines for use in federal elections.
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1912 |
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Arizona was admitted as the 48th U.S. state.
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2002 |
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The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Shays-Meehan bill. The bill, if passed by the U.S. Senate, would ban millions of unregulated money that goes to the national political parties. |
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1849 |
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The first photograph of a U.S. President, while in office, was taken by Matthew Brady in New York City. President James Polk was the subject of the picture. |
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1859 |
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Oregon became the 33rd member of the Union. |
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1889 |
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In Los Angeles, CA, oranges began their first trip to the east. |
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1940 |
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The first porpoise born in captivity arrived at Marineland in Florida. |
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1979 |
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Adolph Dubs, the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, was kidnapped in Kabul by Muslim extremists. He was killed in a shootout between his abductors and police. |
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1989 |
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Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini called on Muslims to kill Salman Rushdie because of his novel "The Satanic Verses."
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1985 |
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Cable News Network (CNN) reporter Jeremy Levin was freed. He had been being held in Lebanon by extremists. |
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1900 |
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Russia imposed tighter imperial control over Finland in response to an international petition for Finland's freedom. |
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1920 |
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The League of Women Voters was founded in Chicago. The first president of the organization was Maude Wood Park. |
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1945 |
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Peru, Paraguay, Chile and Ecuador joined the United Nations. |
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1929 |
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The "St. Valentine's Day Massacre" took place in Chicago, IL. Seven gangsters who were rivals of Al Capone were killed.
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1946 |
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ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) was unveiled. The device, built at the University of Pennsylvania, was the world's first general purpose electronic computer. |
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1961 |
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Lawrencium, element 103, was first produced in Berkely, CA. |
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1983 |
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A 6-year-old boy became the first person to receive a heart and liver transplants in the same operation. |
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1989 |
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The first satellite of the Global Positioning System was placed into orbit around Earth. |
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1997 |
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Astronauts on the space shuttle Discovery began a series of spacewalks that were required to overhaul the Hubble Space Telescope. |
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1932 |
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The U.S. won the first bobsled competition at the Winter Olympic Games at Lake Placid, NY.
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1966 |
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Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia 76ers set a National Basketball Association (NBA) record as he reached a career high of 20,884 points after seven seasons. |
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1979 |
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Twenty-year-old rookie, Don Maloney, of the New York Rangers, scored his first goal in the National Hockey League. It came on his first NHL shot. |
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1803 |
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Moses Coats received a patent on the apple parer. |
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1876 |
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Alexander Graham Bell filed an application for a patent for the telephone. It was officially issued on March 7, 1876. |
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2003 |
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In Madrid, Spain, a ceramic plate with a bullfighting motif painted by Pablo Picasso in 1949 was stolen from an art show. The plate was on sale for $12,400. |
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1968 |
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The fourth Madison Square Gardens opened. |
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1778 |
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The Stars and Stripes was carried to a foreign port, in France, for the first time. It was aboard the American ship Ranger. |
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1903 |
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The U.S. Department of Commerce and Labor was established. |
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1912 |
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The first diesel engine submarine was commissioned in Groton, CT. |
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1900 |
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In South Africa, British Gen. Roberts invaded Orange Free State with 20,000 troops. |
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