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50 Years Ago Today: US Senate cancels the Boeing 2707
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July 4, 1776
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100 years ago today, the word "robot" was coined when Czech writer Karel Čapek's play R.U.R. premiered at the National Theater in Prag
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May 17, 1980: "Only a few amateur optimists mused publicly that the volcano might simply 'go back to sleep.'"
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Today in 1991 hikers in the Alps spotted the mummified body of a 5,300 year old Neolithic/Copper Age man (Otzi)
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47 years ago today- Kent state.
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Today in History: CIA overthrows Allende
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TIH: August 25, 1991- A Finnish College student posts that he is working on a "just for fun" hobby project
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TIH: July 20, 1969- An amazing, humanity-changing event took place and nobody cares any more.
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12 years ago today, a legend was born
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TIH: January 28, 1986: Space Shuttle Challenger explodes just after lift off.
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TIH: 13 union men and 60 children die when a strikebreaker cries "fire" in a crowded theater
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Today In History: The MOVE Bombing
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TIH: September 21, 1937- J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is published
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D-Day and Stalin
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TIH: August 1, 1914- The Great War begins
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The Space Race in the Context of the Cold War
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June 24, 1973: Arson at gay night club in New Orleans. Largest mass murder of LGBT people in the US until the Pulse shooting
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TIH: December 3, 1976 - A giant helium pig intended for a photo shoot with Pink Floyd escaped, bewildering pilots flying high above London
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TIH: February 19, 1942- Executive Order 9066 is signed ordering the Internment of Japanese Americans in the US.
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TIH: February 8, 1996- The CDA is Passed and accidentally allows the growth of the Interactive Internet.
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TIH: August 14, 2003- A software bug leads to a failure cascade in the North American Power Grid
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TIH: May 27, 1962- Locals buring trash in a strip mine set fire to a coal seam in Centralia, PA
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TIH: November 26, 1922- Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3000 years
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TIH: April 18, 1930-Nothing happened. The Infamous Day of No News.
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100 years ago today: America enters WWI
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TIH: July 9, 1962-In order to assert our dominance, the USA nukes space!
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TIH: August 7, 1560- Elizabeth Bathory, possibly the most prolific female serial killer, is born
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March 13, 1781- A Former Composer does something with his new hobby that had never been done before: discover a new planet
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August 23, 1927: Italian immigrant anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were electrocuted for a crime they did not commit.
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