| Today in History |
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1984 ‐
XIV Winter Olympic Games open in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia
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1968 ‐
Orangeburg Massacre: highway patrol officers kill 3 students and injure 27 others demonstrating at South Carolina State University, 1st student killing by law enforcement in the US
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1963 ‐
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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1930 ‐
"Happy Days Are Here Again" by Benny Mereoff hits #1
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1922 ‐
Radio arrives at the White House
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1894 ‐
US Enforcement Act repealed, making it easier to disenfranchise blacks
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1883 ‐
Louis Waterman begins experiment to invent the fountain pen
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1861 ‐
Confederate States of America organizes in Montgomery, Alabama (US Civil War)
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1849 ‐
New Roman Republic established in Italy
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