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1702 - 1st London daily newspaper |
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1810 - Emperor Napoleon married by proxy to Archduchess Marie Louise |
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1847 - John Chapman `Johnny Appleseed' dies in Allen County - Ind |
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1861 - Confederate convention in Montgomery - adopts constitution |
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1865 - Gen Sherman's Union forces occupies Fayetteville - NC |
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1867 - Great Mauna Loa volcano erupts |
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1888 - Blizzard struck NE US - 400 die |
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1892 - 1st public basketball game (Springfield - Mass) |
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1930 - Pres & Chief Justice William Taft buried in Arlington |
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1938 - Germany invades Austria |
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1941 - FDR signs Lend-Lease Bill |
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1942 - Gen MacArthur left Bataan for Australia |
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1953 - 1st woman army Dr commissioned (FM Adams) |
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1958 - Charles Van Doren finally loses on TV's 21 |
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1960 - Pioneer 5 launched; orbits sun between Earth & Venus |
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1977 - Rings of Uranus are discovered |
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1985 - Mikhail S Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko |
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1986 - 187.27 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange |