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2020 ‐
Body of civil rights activist John Lewis crosses the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma for the last time (beaten there 55 years ago) with a military honor guard as part of a remembrance ceremony
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2017 ‐
Great Britain announces it will ban gasoline and diesel cars by 2040
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1990 ‐
President Bush sings ADA
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1963 ‐
US Syncom 2, 1st geosynchronous communications satellite, launched
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1945 ‐
Declaration of Potsdam: US, Britain and China demand the unconditional surrender of Japan during WWII
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1908 ‐
United States Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief Examiner (later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation)
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1835 ‐
1st sugar cane plantation started in Hawaii
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1803 ‐
The Surrey Iron Railway, arguably the world's first public railway, opens in south London
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1790 ‐
US Congress passes the Funding Act of 1790 making the federal government responsible for debts incurred by the states
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1788 ‐
New York becomes 11th state to ratify US constitution
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1775 ‐
US Continental Congress creates United States Post Office (U.S.P.O.) in Philadelphia under Benjamin Franklin
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1755 ‐
Giacomo Casanova is arrested in Venice for affront to religion and common decency and imprisoned in the Doge's Palace
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