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Notable Events, Moments and People In History
Random Moments In Time
November 18, 1989: Penn is 1st to restrict abortions after Supreme Court gave states the right to do so
July 30, 1969: Barbra Streisand opens for Liberace at International Hotel, Las Vegas
July 3, 1898: Joshua Slocum completes 1st solo circumnavigation of the globe
July 10, 1926: Lake Denmark, New Jersey arsenal explodes, kills 21, $75m damage
August 7, 1964: 31st NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chicago 28, All-Stars 17 (65,000)
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Events That Made History Today - May 20
325 - 1st Christian ecumenical council opens at Nicaea, Asia Minor
526 - Earthquake kills 250,000 in Antioch, Syria
1293 - Earthquake strikes Kamakura Japan, 30,000 killed
1303 - Treaty of Paris restores Gascony to British in Hundred Years War
1310 - Shoes were made for both right and left feet
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Events That Made History Tomorrow - May 21
143 - Earliest known date in Amer-pre Mayan king Harvest-Bergvorst installed
685 - Battle at Nechtansmere: Picten beat Northumbrians
996 - Pope Gregory V crowns his cousin Otto III German emperor
1040 - King Henry III gives Utrecht the Groninger currency
1216 - French crown prince Louis enters England
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Events That Made History Yesterday - May 19
715 - St. Gregory II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1506 - Columbus selects his son Diego as sole heir
1515 - George van Saksen-Meissen sells Friesland for 100,000 gold guilders to arch duke Charles
1517 - Philip van Bourgondie installed as bishop of Utrecht
1547 - Monarch Johan Frederik surrenders to Karel
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1897 - The Year That Was
January 1: 1st football game between black colleges-Atlanta U 10, Tuskegee 0
January 1: Brooklyn merges with New York to form present City of New York
January 8: Michael Eagan wins 1st U.S. national amateur handball championship
January 10: Henrik Ibsen's "John Gabriel Borkman," premieres in Helsingfors
January 10: Vincent d'Indy's "Istar" premieres in Amsterdam and Brussels
January 11: M H Cannon becomes 1st woman state senator in U.S. (Utah)
January 14: 6,960-m (22,834') Cerro Aconcagua (Argentina) 1st climbed
January 16: John Dewey's essay "My Pedagogic Creed" appears in School Journal
January 23: Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Abbey Grange"
January 26: Battle at Bida Gold Coast: British troops beat Nupe's army
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