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1993 ‐
Ruth Bader Ginsburg is nominated to the United States Supreme Court by President Bill Clinton
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1989 ‐
Zsa Zsa Gabor arrested for slapping Beverly Hills motorcycle patrolman
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1973 ‐
US President Richard Nixon administration imposes 60-day economy-wide price freeze
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1954 ‐
President Eisenhower signs order adding words "under God" to the Pledge
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1951 ‐
1st commercial computer, UNIVAC 1, enters service at Census Bureau
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1923 ‐
Recording of 1st country music hit (Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane)
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1917 ‐
1st German air attack on England, 100+ killed in East London
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1881 ‐
Player piano patented by John McTammany Jr (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
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1847 ‐
Robert Bunsen invents the Bunsen burner
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1834 ‐
Sandpaper patented by Isaac Fischer Jr, Springfield, Vermont
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1822 ‐
Charles Babbage proposes a "difference engine" in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society entitled "Note on the application of machinery to the computation of astronomical and mathematical tables"
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1775 ‐
US Army first forms as the Continental Army to fight American Revolutionary War
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