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• On This Day for April 4 - Martin Luther King, Jr., assassinated, Marguerite Duras is featured, and more
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• On This Day for July 19 - U.S. women's suffrage movement begun, Edgar Degas is featured, and more
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• On This Day for April 18 - The midnight ride of Paul Revere, Albert Einstein is featured, and more
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• On This Day for July 26 - Suez Canal seized, John Howard is featured, and more
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• On This Day for May 11 - “New Rome” established by Constantine, Salvador Dalí is featured, and more
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• On This Day for May 25 - U.S. Constitutional Convention opened in Philadelphia, Ian McKellen is featured, and more
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• On This Day for June 20 - Casket Letters found, Howlin' Wolf is featured, and more
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• On This Day for August 9 - Pompey defeated by Julius Caesar at the Battle of Pharsalus, Amedeo Avogadro is featured, and more
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• On This Day for June 4 - Martha Stewart indicted, George III is featured, and more
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• On This Day for March 23 - Lewis and Clark's return trip begun, Elizabeth Taylor is featured, and more
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• On This Day for August 10 - Louis XVI of France imprisoned, Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida is featured, and more
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• On This Day for April 7 - Jack Nicklaus's first Masters victory, Ravi Shankar is featured, and more
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• On This Day for July 31 - Lunar Roving Vehicle first used on the Moon, Milton Friedman is featured, and more
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• On This Day for June 24 - Russia invaded by Napoleon and his Grand Army, Jack Dempsey is featured, and more
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• On This Day for May 4 - Four students shot at Kent State, Audrey Hepburn is featured, and more
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• On This Day for July 9 - Catherine the Great assumed power, O.J. Simpson is featured, and more
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• On This Day for June 1 - Debut of CNN, Morgan Freeman is featured, and more
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• On This Day for April 9 - Fall of Baghdad, Jørn Utzon is featured, and more
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• On This Day for May 27 - Founding of St. Petersburg, Vincent Price is featured, and more
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• On This Day for March 17 - Vote to end apartheid, Mia Hamm is featured, and more
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• On This Day for August 6 - Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Diego Velázquez is featured, and more
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• On This Day for August 14 - Cologne Cathedral completed, Halle Berry is featured, and more
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• On This Day for March 18 - Election of Chen Shui-bian, Queen Latifah is featured, and more
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• On This Day for April 19 - American Revolution begun, Charles Darwin is featured, and more
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• On This Day for February 27 - Chile struck by earthquake and tsunami, Constantine I is featured, and more
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• On This Day for April 24 - Installation of Pope Benedict XVI, Barbra Streisand is featured, and more
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• On This Day for July 4 - Declaration of Independence approved by Second Continental Congress, Vivekananda is featured, and more
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• On This Day for June 27 - Yen made official monetary unit of Japan, Jack Lemmon is featured, and more
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• On This Day for March 19 - Iraq War begins, Jill Abramson is featured, and more
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• On This Day for June 23 - Battle of Bannockburn, Clarence Thomas is featured, and more
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• On This Day for April 23 - Voting for Eritrea's independence , William Shakespeare is featured, and more
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• On This Day for March 25 - Robert the Bruce crowned king of Scotland, Aretha Franklin is featured, and more
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• On This Day for June 30 - Night of the Long Knives, Lena Horne is featured, and more
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• On This Day for June 29 - London's Globe Theatre destroyed by fire, Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga is featured, and more
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• On This Day for March 24 - Exxon Valdez Alaskan oil spill, Elizabeth I is featured, and more
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• On This Day for May 14 - Declaration of Israel's statehood, Margaret of Valois is featured, and more
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• On This Day for July 16 - First atomic bomb exploded near Alamogordo, New Mexico, Ginger Rogers is featured, and more
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• On This Day for August 2 - Kuwait invaded, Peter O'Toole is featured, and more
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• On This Day for June 3 - Pro-democracy protest in Tiananmen Square crushed by Chinese military, Josephine Baker is featured, and more
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• On This Day for July 2 - Civil Rights Act signed, Thurgood Marshall is featured, and more
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• On This Day for April 22 - First Earth Day, Miguel de Cervantes is featured, and more
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• On This Day for July 13 - French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat assassinated, Wole Soyinka is featured, and more
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• On This Day for May 10 - Nelson Mandela inaugurated as president of South Africa, Fred Astaire is featured, and more
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• On This Day for May 1 - May Day founded, Arthur Wellesley, 1st duke of Wellington is featured, and more
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• On This Day for June 7 - Lateran Treaty ratified, Prince is featured, and more
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• On This Day for June 9 - Landslide reelection victory for Margaret Thatcher, Peter I (the Great) is featured, and more
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• On This Day for July 22 - Deng Xiaoping reinstated, Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel is featured, and more
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• On This Day for July 24 - Beginning of Mata Hari's trial, Julie Krone is featured, and more
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• On This Day for August 13 - Fall of the Aztec empire, Sir Alfred Hitchcock is featured, and more
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• On This Day for August 11 - Jackson Pollock killed in automobile accident, Pervez Musharraf is featured, and more
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