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2020 ‐
United Arab Emirates starts up the Arab world's first nuclear power station at the Barakah plant
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2017 ‐
First footage of white giraffes posted by Hirola Conservation Program in north eastern Kenya
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1995 ‐
Saudi Arabia's King Fahd issues a decree replacing all members of the Council of Ministers who do not have blood ties to the royal Family
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1990 ‐
Iraq invades and occupies Kuwait, Emir flees to Saudi Arabia
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1983 ‐
US District Court begins trying Yonkers accused of race discrimination
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1969 ‐
US President Richard Nixon visits Romania
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1967 ‐
45,000 US soldiers sent to Vietnam
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1961 ‐
The Beatles 1st gig as house band of Liverpool's Cavern Club
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1943 ‐
Lt John F. Kennedy's PT-boat 109 sinks at Solomon islands
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1940 ‐
Clermont-Ferrand sentences General Charles de Gaulle to death
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1934 ‐
1st airplane train, plane tows 3 mail gliders behind it
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1909 ‐
US issues 1st Lincoln penny
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1880 ‐
British Parliament officially adopts Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
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1877 ‐
San Francisco Public Library opens with 5,000 volumes
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1858 ‐
1st mailboxes installed in Boston and NYC streets
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1858 ‐
Government of India transferred from East India Company to the British Crown
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1790 ‐
1st US census conducted, the population was 3,939,214 including 697,624 slaves
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1776 ‐
Formal signing of the US Declaration of Independence by 56 people (date most accepted by modern historians)
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