Today in History |
2020 ‐
Earliest dated evidence for the human species in the Arabian Peninsula as fossilized footprints 120,000 years old uncovered in Saudi Arabia's Nefud Desert
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2018 ‐
South Africa's Constitutional court legalizes cannabis use by adults in private places
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1998 ‐
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is formed.
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1991 ‐
Yugoslavia begins a naval blockade of 7 Adriatic port cities.
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1963 ‐
USSR orders 58.5 million barrels of cereal from Australia
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1873 ‐
Government bond agent Jay Cooke & Co collapses, causing panic on Wall St, the start of the panic of 1873 and the Long depression
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1848 ‐
Baseball rules 1st baseman can tag base for out instead of runner
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1837 ‐
Charles Lewis Tiffany and John B. Young co-found a "stationery and fancy goods emporium" in New York City, later renamed in 1853 as "Tiffany & Co."
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1793 ‐
US President George Washington lays the cornerstone of the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.
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1789 ‐
1st loan is made to pay salaries of the presidents & Congress
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1769 ‐
John Harris of Boston, Massachusetts, builds 1st spinet piano
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1755 ‐
Fort Ticonderoga in New York opens
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