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2020 ‐
African American Ahmaud Arbery shot to death after being chased down by two white men in Brunswick, Georgia. Video of the killing emerges in May, prompting arrests.
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2018 ‐
Study suggests earliest European Palaeolithic artwork in Spain made by Neanderthals not humans in "Science Journal"
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1954 ‐
1st mass inoculation against polio with the Jonas Salk vaccine takes place at Arsenal Elementary School in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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1942 ‐
Japanese submarine fires on oil refinery in Ellwood, California
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1915 ‐
Nevada enforces convenient divorce law
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1886 ‐
"The Times" of London publishes world's 1st classified ad
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1870 ‐
Mississippi is readmitted to US after the Civil War
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1869 ‐
Louisiana governor signs public accommodations law, which prohibited excluding passengers from railroads, streetcars, steamboats, coaches or other vehicles based on race
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1836 ‐
Battle of the Alamo begins, 13-day siege will end in death for all the Texians
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1822 ‐
Boston, Massachusetts, is incorporated as a city
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1782 ‐
Engineer James Watt's patent for a rotary motion for the steam engine (his sun-and-planet gear) is granted
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