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2020 ‐
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is the 1st US college to send students home and convert to online classes after 135 COVID-19 cases detected
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1982 ‐
First Compact Discs (CDs) released to the public in Germany
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1939 ‐
Musical film "The Wizard of Oz", starring Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, and Jack Haley opens at Loews Capitol Theatre, NYC
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1926 ‐
Greek-Serbian, Croatian and Slavs peace treaty signed
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1908 ‐
Projection in Paris of the very first animated cartoon, Fantasmagorie realized by Émile Cohl
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1891 ‐
1st public bathhouse with showers opens in NYC (People's Bath)
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1870 ‐
1st ascent of Mt Rainier, Washington, by Hazard Stevens and P. B. Van Trump
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1859 ‐
1st air mail (in a balloon) took off from Lafayette, Indiana
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1835 ‐
Solymon Merrick of Springfield, Massachusetts patents the first wrench
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1807 ‐
Robert Fulton's steamboat Clermont begins first trip up Hudson River
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1788 ‐
Losantville, Ohio (now Cincinnati) founded
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1787 ‐
Jews are granted permission in Budapest Hungary to pray in groups
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