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385 years ago today, Jeremiah Horrocks and William Crabtree made the first successful observation of a transit of Venus from Earth. (en.wikipedia.org)
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125 years ago today, Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler, a German painter of the avant-garde, was born. Her works were banned as "degenerate art", and in some cases destroyed, in Nazi Germany. (en.wikipedia.org)
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130 years ago today, Robert Louis Stevenson, a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer, died. (en.wikipedia.org)
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10 years ago today, the session saxophonist Bobby Keys died. (en.wikipedia.org)
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70 years ago today, the US Navy dedicated its Naval Ordnance Research Calculator (NORC) at the Naval Surface Weapons Center in Dahlgren, Virginia. (en.wikipedia.org)
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125 years ago today, a 60-man Filipino rearguard was defeated at the Battle of Tirad Pass, but delayed the American advance long enough to ensure President Emilio Aguinaldo's escape. (en.wikipedia.org)
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80 years ago today, Eric Bloom, a singer & guitarist in Blue Öyster Cult, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)
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180 years ago today, Edwin Francis Jemison, an American Confederate soldier, was born. He served in the 2nd Louisiana Infantry Regiment. (en.wikipedia.org)
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60 years ago today, Don Redman, an American jazz musician, arranger, bandleader, and composer, died. (en.wikipedia.org)
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70 years ago today, Ann Elizabeth Fowler Hodges was struck by a meteorite and lived through the encounter. (en.wikipedia.org)
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90 years ago today, Flying Scotsman became the first steam locomotive officially to exceed 100 miles per hour (161 km/h). (en.wikipedia.org)
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150 years ago today, Winston Churchill, a British statesman, military officer, and writer, was born. He served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. (en.wikipedia.org)
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80 years ago today, Twink, a drummer and member of Pink Fairies, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)
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100 years ago today, the Bronx County Bird Club was formed and would go on to lead the Audubon Society's Christmas Bird Count in the eastern US for three years in a row. (en.wikipedia.org)
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125 years ago today, Football Club Barcelona was born as a result of a meeting initiated by Joan Gamper and attended by eleven players. (en.wikipedia.org)
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160 years ago today, the Sand Creek massacre, a massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho people by the U.S. Army in the American Indian Wars, occurred. (en.wikipedia.org)
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A 675-man force of the Third Colorado Cavalry under the command of U.S. Volunteers Colonel John Chivington attacked and destroyed a village of Cheyenne and Arapaho people in southeastern Colorado Territory, killing and mutilating an estimated 70 to over 600 Native American people.

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75 years ago today, Iriaka Rātana is elected to the New Zealand parliament (Pāremata Aotearoa). She was the first Māori woman to become an MP. She held her seat until her retirement in 1969. (media.mstdn.social)
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10 years ago today, the album Rock or Bust by the Hard Rock band AC/DC from Australia was released. (feddit.nl)
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30 years ago today (and yesterday), Norway voted to reject membership of the European Union in a referendum, for the second time in its history. (news.bbc.co.uk)
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70 years ago today, Enrico Fermi, an Italian and naturalized American physicist, died. He is renowned for being the creator of the world's first artificial nuclear reactor, the Chicago Pile-1. (en.wikipedia.org)
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10 years ago today, Sabah, a Lebanese singer and actress, died. (en.wikipedia.org)
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85 years ago today, Tina Turner, a singer, songwriter, and actress, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)
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100 years ago today, the first constitution of the Mongolian People's Republic was passed by the First National Great Hural. (en.wikipedia.org)
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100 years ago today, Paul Desmond, an American jazz alto saxophonist, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)
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140 years ago today, Hermann Kolbe, a German chemist and academic, died. He was a major contributor to the birth of modern organic chemistry. (en.wikipedia.org)
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