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2020 ‐
FBI charge 13 men with plotting to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and storm the Michigan Capitol
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2018 ‐
Major climate report by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for the UN says planet will warm 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit (1.5 degrees Celsius) by 2040 with dire results
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1993 ‐
UN lifts remaining economic sanctions against South Africa
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1971 ‐
John Lennon releases his megahit single "Imagine"
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1963 ‐
Sultan of Zanzibar cedes his mainland possessions to Kenya
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1945 ‐
Microwave oven patented by US inventor Percy Spencer
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1939 ‐
Germany annexes Western Poland
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1912 ‐
Montenegro declares war on Turkey, beginning 1st Balkan War
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1906 ‐
Karl Nessler demonstrates first 'permanent wave' for hair in London
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1904 ‐
Vanderbilt Cup, first major trophy in American auto racing is conducted on public roads in Nassau County area of Long Island, NY; inaugural winner, American driver George Heath in a Panhard
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1871 ‐
The Great Chicago Fire kills an estimated 300 people and destroys over 4 square miles (10 square km) of buildings and the original Emancipation Proclamation
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1856 ‐
The Second Opium War or second Anglo-Chinese War: begins with the Arrow Incident on the Pearl River
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1818 ‐
Jack Broughton designed padded gloves first used in a competitive boxing match between 2 unnamed English boxers at Aix-la-Chapelle in France
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1775 ‐
Officers decide to bar slaves and free blacks from the Continental Army
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