Today in History |
2013 ‐
Uruguay passes legislation to legalize same-sex marriage
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1978 ‐
Czech tennis star Martina Navratilova wins her first WTA Tour Championship; beats Evonne Goolagong Cawley of Australia 7-6, 6-4 at Oakland Coliseum Arena
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1973 ‐
Launch of the LexisNexis computerized legal research service.
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1968 ‐
"2001 A Space Odyssey" directed by Stanley Kubrick and starring Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood, premieres at the Uptown Theater in Washington, D.C.
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1958 ‐
Antillean Brewery (Amstel beer) opens
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1935 ‐
Scottish physicist Robert Watson-Watt receives a British patents for RADAR
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1921 ‐
Albert Einstein lectures in New York City on his new "Theory of Relativity"
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1884 ‐
London prison for debtors closed
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1872 ‐
US engineer George Brayton patents an internal combustion engine (Brayton Cycle)
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1827 ‐
US inventor Joseph Dixon of Salem, Massachusetts, begins manufacturing lead pencils
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1819 ‐
1st successful agricultural journal ("American Farmer") first publishes
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