Today in History |
2021 ‐
US Census results shows its population growth second slowest in recorded history
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2019 ‐
"No religion" tops survey of American religious identity for the first time at 23.1% edging out Catholics 23.0% and evangelicals 22.5%, in long-running General Social Survey
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1984 ‐
President Reagan visits China
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1977 ‐
Opening of Studio 54 in New York, N.Y.
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1968 ‐
Students seize administration building at Ohio State
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1954 ‐
Mass trials of Jonas Salk's anti-polio vaccine begin
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1933 ‐
Jewish students are barred from school in Germany
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1915 ‐
Italy secretly signs the "Treaty of London" with Britain, France and Russia, bringing Italy into World War I on the Allied side
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1865 ‐
Confederate General J E Johnston surrenders remaining forces to Union General William Sherman at Bennett Place in Durham, North Carolina, ending the US Civil War
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1859 ‐
Dan Sickles is acquitted of murder on grounds of temporary insanity - 1st time this defense used successfully in the US
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1841 ‐
"Bombay Gazette" begins publishing on silk
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1777 ‐
Sybil Ludington aged 16, rides 40 miles in New York to warn her father's militia of the approach of the British
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1755 ‐
1st Russian university opens in Moscow
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