| Today in History |
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1979 ‐
US Supreme Court rules 8-1 that cops can't randomly stop cars
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1961 ‐
Black demonstrators in Charleston staged ride-ins on street cars
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1958 ‐
Havana Hilton opens in Cuba, later HQ for Fidel Castro
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1941 ‐
Yugoslavian coup gets rid of pro-German Prince Paul
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1930 ‐
1st US radio broadcast from a ship at sea
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1915 ‐
Typhoid Mary [Mary Mallon] is arrested and returned to quarantine on North Brother Island, New York after spending five years evading health authorities and causing several further outbreaks of typhoid
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1866 ‐
Andrew Rankin patents the urinal
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1866 ‐
US President Andrew Johnson vetoes civil rights bill; it later becomes 14th amendment
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1794 ‐
The United States Government establishes a permanent navy and authorizes the building of six frigates.
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