| Today in History |
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2018 ‐
Pope Francis asks for forgiveness in speech on child abuse in Dublin, during first official visit to Ireland since 1979
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2016 ‐
San Francisco 49ers Colin Kaepernick kneels in protest during the US national anthem at San Diego's Qualcomm Stadium while playing against the San Diego Chargers, objecting to racial injustice and police brutality in the US
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1972 ‐
XX Summer Olympic Games open in Munich, West Germany
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1957 ‐
USSR announces successful test of intercontinental ballistic missile
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1939 ‐
1st major league baseball telecast on W2XBS- Cincinnati Reds defeat the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn
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1939 ‐
Croatia gets autonomous status
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1895 ‐
Electric generator at Niagara Falls produces first power
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1874 ‐
16 blacks kidnapped from Gibson County Jail and lynched in Trenton, Tennessee
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1873 ‐
First free kindergarten in the U.S. started by Susan Blow in Carondelet, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri
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1843 ‐
American inventor Charles Thurber patents a typewriter
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1789 ‐
The National Constituent Assembly adopts the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen at the beginning of the French Revolution
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1778 ‐
First recorded ascent of Triglav, the highest mountain in Slovenia by Balthasar Hacquet
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