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2019 ‐
Taiwan's parliament votes to legalize same-sex marriage, the first Asian country
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1971 ‐
Washington State bans sex discrimination
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1916 ‐
British Summer Time (Daylight Savings) introduced
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1900 ‐
"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" is first published by L. Frank Baum with illustrations by William Wallace Denslow in Chicago
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1884 ‐
Alaska becomes a US territory
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1877 ‐
Edwin T Holmes installs 1st telephone switchboard burglar alarm
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1875 ‐
1st Kentucky Derby: Oliver Lewis aboard Aristides wins in 2:37.75
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1861 ‐
First color photograph of a tartan ribbon shown by Scottish scientist James Clerk Maxwell to the Royal Institution in London
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1814 ‐
Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden (National Day)
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1794 ‐
Hard frost in southern New England
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