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298 – Roman Emperor Maximian concludes his campaign in North Africa against the Berbers, and makes a triumphal entry into which city ?
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1804 – Louisiana Purchase: In St. Louis, Missouri, a formal ceremony is conducted to transfer ownership of the Louisiana Territory from which country to the United States ?
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1977 – Astronomers discover the rings of which planet ?
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1526 - Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V, marries Princess Isabella of Portugal, his 1st cousin, in which city ?
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1535 - Bishop Tomés de Berlanga discovers which island group ?
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1762 - French Huguenot, Jean Calas, who was wrongly convicted of killing his son, dies after suffering what ?
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1801 - First official census in Great Britain, revealing a population of approximately how many people ?
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1849 - Abraham Lincoln applies for a patent (only US President to do so) for a device to do what ?
Lift a Boat over Obstructions
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Brand Cattle Painlessly
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1876 - First telephone call; Alexander Graham Bell says what to his assistant Thomas Watson ?
"Hello, Hello, Can you hear me ?"
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"Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you"
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"Can you bring my lunch Watson"
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1939 - Seventeen villages in the Hyderabad area of India are damaged by what ?
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1951 - FBI director J. Edgar Hoover declines the post of commissioner for which sport ?
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1982 - The United States places an embargo on which country's petroleum imports due to their support of terrorist groups ?
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1987 - Which country announces a formal opposition to test-tube fertilization & embryo transfer ?
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1988 - An avalanche at the Swiss ski resort of Klosters almost kills which member of the British Royal Family ?
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1997 - "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" starring Sarah Michelle Geller premieres on which television network ?
Warner Bros. Television
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