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70 years ago today, Dr. Sam Sheppard is convicted for beating his wife, Marilyn, to death inside their suburban home in Cleveland, Ohio five months earlier. (en.wikipedia.org)
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200 years ago today, James Parkinson, an English surgeon, apothecary, geologist, palaeontologist and political activist, died. (en.wikipedia.org)
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25 years ago today, Portugal transferred the sovereignty over Macau, which it had administered since the mid–16th century, to China. (en.wikipedia.org)
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50 years ago today, Nelson A. Rockefeller was sworn in as vice president, replacing Gerald R. Ford, who became president when Richard M. Nixon resigned. (en.wikipedia.org)
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190 years ago today, the Dublin and Kingstown Railway opened as the first public railway on the island of Ireland. (upload.wikimedia.org)
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85 years ago today, the German cruiser Admiral Graf Spee was scuttled because its commander, Hans Langsdorff, was unwilling to risk the lives of his crew. (en.wikipedia.org)
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80 years ago today, Nazi Germany launched a counteroffensive against the Allies in the Ardennes region of Belgium, beginning the 'Battle of the Bulge'. (en.wikipedia.org)
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80 years ago today, Chico Mendes, a Brazilian rubber tapper, trade union leader, and environmentalist, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)
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30 years ago today, the construction of the Three Gorges Dam, a hydroelectric gravity dam, began. It spans the Yangtze River near Sandouping in central China, downstream of the Three Gorges. (en.wikipedia.org)
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225 years ago today, George Washington, a Founding Father of the United States, military officer, and farmer, died. He served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797. (en.wikipedia.org)
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900 years ago today, Pope Callixtus II, the head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from February 1119 to his death in 1124, died. (en.wikipedia.org)
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80 years ago today, Wassily Kandinsky, a Russian painter and art theorist, died. (en.wikipedia.org)
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100 years ago today, Alexander Parvus, a Marxist theoretician, publicist, and controversial activist in the Social Democratic Party of Germany, died. (en.wikipedia.org)
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45 years ago today, NATO decided to offer the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact a mutual limitation of medium-range and intermediate-range ballistic missiles amidst the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. (en.wikipedia.org)
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In case of refusal, NATO planned to deploy more medium-range nuclear weapons in Western Europe after the Euromissile Crisis.

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105 years ago today, the citizens of Enterprise, Alabama, erected a monument to the boll weevil, the pest that devastated their fields. (www.loc.gov)
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235 years ago today, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, one of the oldest public universities in the United States and the only one to award degrees in the 18th century, was chartered. (en.wikipedia.org)
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25 years ago today, Pope John Paul II inaugurated the restored 15th century fresco cycle in the Sistine Chapel. (en.wikipedia.org)
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225 years ago today, the French National Assembly specified the platinum metre bar, presented on 22 June 1799 and deposited in the National Archives, as the final standard of the metre. (en.wikipedia.org)
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90 years ago today, Judi Dench, an English actress, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)
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200 years ago today, the Battle of Ayacucho, a decisive military encounter during the Peruvian War of Independence, took place between Royalist and Independentist forces at Pampa de Ayacucho. (en.wikipedia.org)
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160 years ago today, Camille Claudel, a French sculptor, was born. She is known for her figurative works in bronze and marble. (en.wikipedia.org)
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75 years ago today, UNRWA, a UN agency, was formed. It supports the relief and human development of Palestinian refugees. (en.wikipedia.org)
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75 years ago today, Tom Waits, an American musician, composer, songwriter, and actor, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)
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What is he waiting for?

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75 years ago today, Mary Margaret O'Reilly, an American civil servant, died. She served as the assistant director of the United States Bureau of the Mint from 1924 until 1938. (en.wikipedia.org)
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55 years ago today, the Altamont Free Concert, a counterculture rock concert in the United States, was held at the Altamont Speedway outside of Tracy, California. (en.wikipedia.org)
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