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1944 - On this day in 1944, 800 Gypsy children, including more than a hundred boys between 9 and 14 years old…
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1855 - American inventor Isaac Singer patents sewing machine motor. 1930 - 1st transcontinental flight by a woman completed, Laura Ingalls. 1967…
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1927 - "The Second Hundred Years" silent short film released starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy - 1st Laurel and Hardy film…
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1949 - On this day in 1949, a constitution went into effect in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany that formed the…
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1889 - Moulin Rouge opens in Paris. 1889 - Thomas Edison shows his 1st motion picture. 1948 - Paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey finds…
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1789 - French Revolution: Women of Paris march to Versailles in the March on Versailles to confront Louis XVI about his refusal…
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1883 - The Orient Express departs on its first official journey from Paris to Istanbul. 1927 - Sculpting begins on the face…
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1778 - Captain James Cook anchors at Alaska 1941 - "The Maltese Falcon" directed by John Huston and based off Dashiell Hammett's…
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1836 - Naturalist Charles Darwin returned to England this day in 1836 after a five-year journey on the HMS Beagle, on which…
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1867 - Karl Marx' "Das Kapital" published 1868 - "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott is published in America by Roberts Brothers…
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1542 - Explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, known as the “discoverer” of California, landed this day in 1542 near what is now San…