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Julius Caesar celebrates the first of four processions in Rome with the leader of the Gauls Vercingetorix led in chains | |
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1192
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Richard I the Lion Hearted fis captured by Leopold V, Duke of Austria | |
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1348
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Jews in Zurich, Switzerland are accused of poisoning wells | |
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1451
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Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa orders Jews of Holland to wear badges | |
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1677
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Jan and Nicolaas van der Heyden patent the fire hose | |
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1776
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The city of New York burns totally five days after the British capture it | |
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Nathan Hale spied on the British for American rebels and was arrested | |
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1780
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Benedict Arnold gave British Major John Andre plans to West Point | |
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1823
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Joseph Smith encounters Moroni for the first time according to his account | |
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1896
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Walter Breuning, retired from the railroad, American supercentenarian, and the oldest undisputed American-born man on record was born in Melrose, Minnesota, United States. | |
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1897
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The New York Sun ran it's famous "Yes, Virginia there is a Santa Claus" editorial | |
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1913
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The first aerobatic maneuver called sustained inverted flight was performed in France | |
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1915
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Cecil Chubb bought the English prehistoric monument Stonehenge for £6,600 | |
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1928
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"My Weekly Reader" debuts in schools everywhere | |
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1930
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The flashbulb is patented by Johann Ostermeyer | |
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1931
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Britain abandoned the gold standard and the pound devalued by 20% | |
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1942
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116 hostages were executed by the Nazis in Paris | |
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1949
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Chines Communist leaders declare China to be the People's Republic of China | |
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1957
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The television series "Perry Mason" premieres on CBS television starring Raymond Burr as the character by author Erle Stanley Gardner | |
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1966
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Jimmy Hendrix changed the spelling of his name to Jimi | |
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1968
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"Adam-12" the police drama debuts on NBC in the United States | |
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1985
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American CIA officer Edward Lee Howard escaped to Russia after being identified as a KGB agent | |
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2008
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Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley were the last two remaining independent investment banks on Wall Street becoming bank holding companies as a result of the subprime mortgage crimes | |
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