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In San Francisco, CA, the first large city telephone exchange opened. It had only 18 phones. |
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1992 |
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In Milwaukee, serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer was sentenced to life in prison. In November of 1994, he was beaten to death in prison. |
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1995 |
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Colin Ferguson was convicted of six counts of murder in the December 1993 Long Island Rail Road shootings. He was later sentenced to a minimum of 200 years in prison. |
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1934 |
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The first high school automobile driver’s education course was introduced in State College, PA. |
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1947 |
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The Voice of America began broadcasting to the Soviet Union. |
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1965 |
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Comedienne Joan Rivers made her first guest appearances on " The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson" on NBC-TV. |
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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that congressional districts within each state had to be approximately equal in population. (Westberry v. Sanders) |
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1876 |
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Julius Wolff was credited with being the first to can sardines. |
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1933 |
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Blondie Boopadoop married Dagwood Bumstead three years after Chic Young’s popular strip first debuted. |
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1997 |
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Pepperdine University announced that Kenneth Starr was leaving the Whitewater probe to take a full-time job at the school. Starr reversed the announcement four days later. |
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2005 |
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U.S. President George W. Bush named John Negroponte as the first national intelligence director. |
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1801 |
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The U.S. House of Representatives broke an electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr. Jefferson was elected president and Burr became vice president. |
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1897 |
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The National Congress of Mothers was organized in Washington, DC, by Alice McLellan Birney and Phoebe Apperson Hearst. It was the forerunner of the National PTA. |
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1933 |
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"Newsweek" was first published. |
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1817 |
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The first gaslit streetlights appeared on the streets of Baltimore, MD. |
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1924 |
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Swimmer Johnny Weissmuller set a world record in the 100-yard freestyle. He did it with a time of 52-2/5 seconds in Miami, FL. |
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1968 |
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The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame opened in Springfield, MA. |
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1996 |
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World chess champion Garry Kasparov beat the IBM supercomputer "Deep Blue" in Philadelphia, PA. |
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1913 |
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The Armory Show opened at the 69th Regiment Armory in New York City. The full-scale exhibition was of contemporary paintings and was organized by the Association of Painters and Sculptors. |
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1865 |
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Columbia, SC, burned. The Confederates were evacuating and the Union Forces were moving in. |
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1944 |
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During World War II, the Battle of Eniwetok Atoll began. U.S. forces won the battle on February 22, 1944. |
