2013
A meteor exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia, which sent shockwaves that smashed windows and injured 1,500 people.
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2001
The first draft of the human genome was published in Nature Magazine.
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1992
Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, who was known as the Milwaukee Cannibal, was sentenced to life in prison.
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1971
Great Britain ditched their Pence and Shillings currency values for decimal varieties.
The Pence and Shilling had been used in Britain for 1,200 years.
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1961
Sabena Flight 458 crashed, killing the entire US Figure Skating team.
The US Figure Skating team was traveling to Prague, Czechoslovakia, to attend the World Figure Skating Championship.
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1936
Adolf Hitler announced the construction of the Volkswagen Beetle.
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1933
An assassination attempt was made against US President Franklin D. Roosevelt by an Italian immigrant, Giuseppe Zangara.
Giuseppe fired five times, missing FDR but hitting five others, including Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak.
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1927
The silent movie “IT,” directed by Clarence G. Badger and Josef von Sternberg, was released in the US.
The movie is based on the serialized novella by Elinor Glyn.
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1906
A trade union was founded that later became the current British Labor Party.
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1879
US President Rutherford B. Hayes signed a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the Supreme Court.
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1864
Heineken International was founded in the Netherlands.
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399 BC
The Greek philosopher Socrates was sentenced to death for corrupting the minds of Athens’s youth.
He chose not to flee the city and take his execution by drinking hemlock, a highly poisonous plant from the carrot family.
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