Today in History |
2020 ‐
WHO reports most new cases in a single day - 106,000 worldwide of COVID-19
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1990 ‐
Hubble Space Telescope sends its 1st photographs from space
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1967 ‐
BBC bans the Beatles' "A Day in the Life" because of drug references
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1961 ‐
White mob attacks "Freedom Riders" in Montgomery, Alabama
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1926 ‐
Congress passes Air Commerce Act, licensing of pilots & planes
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1916 ‐
Saturday Evening Post cover features Norman Rockwell painting
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1899 ‐
First speeding infraction by a New York cabbie driving an electric car - 12mph down Lexington Street
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1892 ‐
George Sampson patents clothes dryer
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1873 ‐
Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis patent the first blue jeans with copper rivets
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1870 ‐
Second Chamber of the Dutch Parliament abolishes capital punishment in The Netherlands
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1861 ‐
North Carolina becomes 11th and last state to secede from the Union
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1830 ‐
1st railroad timetable published in newspaper (Baltimore American)
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1775 ‐
Citizens of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina declare independence from Great Britain
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1774 ‐
The British pass the second of the Intolerable Acts: the Massachusetts Government Act, giving British-appointed governor wide-ranging powers
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