| Today in History |
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2003 ‐
U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Hussein's regime falls two days later.
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1983 ‐
Oldest human skeleton, aged 80,000 years, discovered in Egypt
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1969 ‐
Supreme Court strikes down laws prohibiting private possession of obscene material
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1969 ‐
The Internet's symbolic birth date: publication of RFC 1
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1963 ‐
Yugoslavia proclaimed a Socialistic republic
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1959 ‐
Oklahoma ends prohibition, after 51 years
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1948 ‐
World Health Organization formed by the United Nations
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1933 ‐
1st 2 NAZI anti-Jewish laws, bars Jews from legal & public service
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1927 ‐
Using phone lines TV is sent from Washington, D.C. to NYC
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1902 ‐
Texas Oil Company (Texaco) forms
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1891 ‐
Nebraska introduces 8 hour work day
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1827 ‐
English chemist John Walker invents wooden matches
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1805 ‐
Lewis and Clark Expedition leaves Fort Mandan on their journey to the Pacific Ocean
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1795 ‐
France adopts the metre as the basic measure of length
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1788 ‐
1st settlement in Ohio, at Marietta
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