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1840 |
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The penny post, whereby mail was delivered at a standard charge rather than paid for by the recipient, began in Britain. |
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1994 |
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In Manassas, VA, Lorena Bobbitt went on trial. She had been charged with maliciously wounding her husband John. She was acquitted by reason of temporary insanity. |
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1997 |
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Shelby Lynne Barrackman was strangled to death by her grand-father when she licked the icing off of cupcakes. He was convicted of the crime on September 15, 1998. |
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1901 |
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Oil was discovered at the Spindletop oil field near Beaumont, TX. |
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1927 |
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Fritz Lang's film "Metropolis" was first shown, in Berlin. |
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1943 |
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The quiz show, "The Better Half," was heard for the first time on Mutual Radio.
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1971 |
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"Masterpiece Theatre" premiered on PBS with host Alistair Cooke. The introduction drama series was "The First Churchills."
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2007 |
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The iTunes Music Store reached 1.3 million feature length films sold and 50 million television episodes sold. |
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1943 |
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U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt sailed from Miami, FL, to Trinidad thus becoming the first American President to visit a foreign country during wartime. |
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1957 |
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Harold Macmillan became prime minister of Britain, following the resignation Anthony Eden. |
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2002 |
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In France, the "Official Journal" reported that all women could get the morning-after contraception pill for free in pharmacies.
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1861 |
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Florida seceded from the United States. |
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1990 |
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Chinese Premier Li Peng ended martial law in Beijing after seven months. He said that crushing pro-democracy protests had saved China from "the abyss of misery." |
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1870 |
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John D. Rockefeller incorporated Standard Oil |
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1911 |
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Major Jimmie Erickson took the first photograph from an airplane while flying over San Diego, CA.
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1951 |
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Donald Howard Rogers piloted the first passenger jet on a trip from Chicago to New York City.
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1920 |
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The League of Nations ratified the Treaty of Versailles, officially ending World War I with Germany. |
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1920 |
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The League of Nations held its first meeting in Geneva. |
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1928 |
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The Soviet Union ordered the exile of Leon Trotsky. |
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1946 |
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The first meeting of the United Nations General Assembly took place with 51 nations represented. |
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1984 |
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The United States and the Vatican established full diplomatic relations for the first time in more than a century.
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2003 |
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North Korea announced that it was withdrawing from the global nuclear arms control treaty and that it had no plans to develop nuclear weapons.
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1776 |
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Thomas Paine published his pamphlet "Common Sense." |
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1978 |
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The Soviet Union launched two cosmonauts aboard a Soyuz capsule for a redezvous with the Salyut VI space laboratory. |
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1950 |
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Ben Hogan appeared for the first time in a golf tournament since an auto accident a year earlier. He tied ‘Slammin’ Sammy Snead in the Los Angeles Open, however, Hogan lost in a playoff. |
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1963 |
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The Chicago Cubs became the first baseball club to hire an athletic director. He was Robert Whitlow. (MLB) |
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1990 |
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Time Inc. and Warner Communications Inc. completed a $14 billion merger. The new company, Time Warner, was the world's largest entertainment company. |
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2000 |
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It was announced that Time-Warner had agreed to buy America On-line (AOL). It was the largest-ever corporate merger priced at $162 billion. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) approved the deal on December 14, 2000. |
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2001 |
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American Airlines agreed to acquire most of Trans World Airlines (TWA) assets for about $500 million. The deal brought an end to the financially troubled TWA. |
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1863 |
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Prime Minister Gladstone opened the first section of the London Underground Railway system, from Paddington to Farringdon Street. |
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1981 |
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In El Salvador, Marxist insurgents launched a "final offensive". |
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