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2021 ‐
WHO says Europe is again the Epicenter for COVID-19 after cases rise 50% in a month
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2018 ‐
NASA's Voyager 2 probe leaves the solar system, becoming the second human-made object to reach interstellar space
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2014 ‐
The US votes in mid-term elections: Republicans retain the house & regain the Senate
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2008 ‐
Barack Obama becomes the first African-American to be elected President of the United States, defeating Republican candidate John McCain
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1996 ‐
British girls group the Spice Girls release their debut album "Spice", goes on to sell 23 million copies
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1968 ‐
"Wichita Lineman" 12th album by Glen Campbell is released (Billboard Album of the Year, 1969)
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1956 ‐
200,000 Russian troops attack anti-Soviet movement in Budapest, Hungary
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1939 ‐
First air conditioned automobile (Packard) exhibited, Chicago, Illinois
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1922 ‐
Howard Carter discovers the intact tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun in Egypt
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1914 ‐
Vogue holds 1st model show ("Fashion Fete", NYC)
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1879 ‐
African American inventor Thomas Elkins patents the Refrigerating Apparatus
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1873 ‐
Dentist John Beers of San Francisco patents the gold crown
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1866 ‐
Kingdom of Italy annexes Venetia
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1846 ‐
American inventor Benjamin Palmer from Meredith, New Hampshire, patents the artificial leg
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1845 ‐
First nationally observed uniform election day in the United States, the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November
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1841 ‐
First wagon train arrives in California after a five and a half month and 1,730 mile journey over the Sierra Nevada from Missouri
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1783 ‐
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Symphony No. 36" premieres in Linz, Austria
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