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2021 ‐
UN says Madagascar on brink of world's first "climate change famine" with people suffering "catastrophic" levels of hunger, after four years without rain
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2018 ‐
Aerosmith lead singer Steven Tyler sends cease-and-desist letter to US President Trump demanding he stop using the band's songs at rallies
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1995 ‐
Windows 95 is released
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1991 ‐
Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of USSR Communist Party
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1969 ‐
Peru nationalizes US oil interests
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1959 ‐
Hiram L Fong sworn in as 1st Chinese-American senator while Daniel K Inouye sworn in as 1st Japanese-American Rep (Both from Hawaii)
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1936 ‐
FDR gives the FBI the authority to pursue fascists and communists
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1891 ‐
Thomas Edison patents motion picture camera
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1857 ‐
The Panic of 1857 begins, setting off one of the most severe economic crises in U.S. history.
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1853 ‐
1st potato chips prepared by chef George Crum at Moon's Lake House, near Saratoga Springs, New York (popular legend says he invented though earlier recipes exist)
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1816 ‐
The Treaty of St. Louis is signed by the USA and the united tribes of Ottawa, Ojibwa, and Potawatomi in St. Louis, Missouri.
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1814 ‐
British forces capture Washington, D.C. and destroy many landmarks (War of 1812)
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1789 ‐
French Revolution: The National Assembly proclaims freedom of speech
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1787 ‐
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completes his violin and piano sonata in A, K526
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