| Today in History |
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2021 ‐
Donald Trump's ban from Facebook upheld by the company's Oversight Board for a further six months
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1925 ‐
Dayton teacher John T. Scopes arrested for teaching evolution in Tennessee
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1916 ‐
US Marines invade Dominican Republic, stay until 1924
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1908 ‐
Great White Fleet arrives in San Francisco
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1893 ‐
Panic of 1893 causes a large crash on the NY Stock Exchange
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1881 ‐
Anti-Jewish rioting in Kyiv, Ukraine
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1865 ‐
1st US train robbery (North Bend, Ohio)
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1842 ‐
City-wide fire burns for over 100 hours in Hamburg, Germany
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1809 ‐
Mary Kies is 1st woman issued a US patent for weaving straw
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1792 ‐
Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre commissioned to measure the meridian between Dunkerque to Rodez to calculate accurate length of the metre
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