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Event
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Year
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Death of Pope Sergius III
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911
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Consecration of Pope Celestine II
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1198
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Yorkist King Edward IV wins Battle of Barnet over Lancastrian King Henry VI
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1471
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Canonization of Saint Bonaventure
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1482
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Birth of King Phillip III
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1578
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Birth of Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens
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1629
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Noah Webster publishes first dictionary
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1818
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Brigham Young baptized into Mormon faith
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1832
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Hungarian rebels declare independence from Hapsburg monarchy
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1849
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Abraham Lincoln shot by John Wilkes Booth
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1865
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Birth of Helen Keller’s teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan
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1866
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Birth of English historian, Arnold Toynbee
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1889
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Thomas Edison’s kinetoscope makes its debut
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1894
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Birth of English actor John Gielgud
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1904
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Titanic’s hull is ruptured and sinks
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1912
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Germany accuses France of using poison gas at Verdun in WWI
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1915
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Ernest Shackleton and his crew land on Elephant Island
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1916
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Death of the creator of Esperanto, Ludwik Zamenhof
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1917
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French general Ferdinand Foch put in command of all Allied forces and America first engages in aerial combat.
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1918
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Birth of Argentinean professional golfer Roberto DeVicenzo
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1923
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First regular-production Volvo produced
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1927
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Birth of English actress Julie Christie and landing of British and French troops in Nazi-occupied Norway
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1940
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Birth of American professional baseball player Pete Rose and Yugoslavian government flees to Athens
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1941
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Birth of American race-car driver Dick Brooks, first use of new British radar system in WWII, and first American sinking of a German submarine
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1942
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First videotape recorder first demonstrated
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1956
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Birth of American actress Sarah Michelle Gellar
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1977
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Soviet Union agrees to withdraw troops from Afghanistan
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1988
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British archaeologists discover 7,000-year-old fishing village on Dalma Island in UAE
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1993
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American warplanes accidentally shoot down two helicopters full of international personnel in Iraq
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1994
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NASDAQ posts its biggest drop ever
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2000
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