Today in History |
2021 ‐
Largest-ever repatriation of 17,000 looted Iraqi antiquities returned to Baghdad, including items from Hobby Lobby's Museum of the Bible and Cornell University
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2020 ‐
US congressman John Lewis becomes the first black lawmaker to lie in state in the Rotunda in Washington D.C.
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1968 ‐
Race Riot in Gary Indiana
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1967 ‐
LBJ sets up commission to study cause of urban violence
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1962 ‐
Martin Luther King Jr. jailed in Albany, Georgia
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1940 ‐
Bugs Bunny debuts in an animated short
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1919 ‐
Chicago race riot (15 whites & 23 blacks killed, 500 injured)
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1909 ‐
Orville Wright tests 1st US Army airplane, flying 1h12m40s
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1888 ‐
Philip Pratt unveils 1st American electric tricycle
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1844 ‐
Fire destroys US mint at Charlotte, North Carolina
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1837 ‐
US Mint opens in Charlotte, North Carolina
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1816 ‐
US troops destroy Fort Apalachicola, a Seminole fort, to punish Indians for harboring runaway slaves
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1794 ‐
Maximilien Robespierre is overthrown in a coup in Paris
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1789 ‐
US Congress establishes Department of Foreign Affairs now referred to as the State Department
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