2007
The website Tumblr was launched by its founder David Karp.
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1986
The USSR launched the Mir core module, the first module of the new space station.
The core module contained all necessary equipment to accommodate astronauts, including life support, living spaces, communications systems, and a command and control center. During its lifetime, another five research modules were added, with the station hosting 125 astronauts and cosmonauts from 12 countries.
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1964
A British company sent a 1,000-pound shipment of The Beatles wigs to the USA.
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1963
The iconic book “The Feminine Mystique” was published by Betty Friedan.
It went on to be a huge success and initiated the Second Wave Feminist Movement.
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1949
American poet Ezra Pound won the first annual Bollingen Prize for his poetry.
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1933
Nazi Cabinet minister Hermann Göring banned all Catholic newspapers.
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1914
Frugal parents mailed their four-year-old child 73 miles from their home to the child’s grandparents.
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1910
An Irish cook in New York, US, infected 53 people with typhoid.
Mary Mallon (also known as Typhoid Mary) continued to cook and exposed others to the disease. Three of them died, and Mary was forced to quarantine twice. She died after almost three decades in isolation.
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1906
Kellogg’s Foods was founded in Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA.
The company was first known as The Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company.
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1881
Alcohol was prohibited in Kansas.
Kansas was the first US state to prohibit the production, transportation, and sale of alcohol. The ban lasted for 67 years. The Prohibition resulted from the Temperance Movement, a social movement that promoted the idea that the consumption of alcohol was inherently bad for society as a whole.
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1878
Thomas Edison received a patent for his new invention, the phonograph.
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1819
Captain William Smith discovered Williams Point at the far northeast of Livingston in the South Shetlands.
This journey made it the furthest anyone had ever traveled south.
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1736
Opera “Alexander’s Feast” by George Frideric Handel premiered in London.
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