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• On This Day for August 12 - Phonograph invented by Thomas Alva Edison, William Blake is featured, and more
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• On This Day for August 8 - Resignation of U.S. President Nixon, Emiliano Zapata is featured, and more
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• On This Day for August 7 - Japanese airfield on Guadalcanal seized by Allies, Emil Nolde is featured, and more
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• On This Day for March 7 - Attack on civil rights protesters in Selma, Alabama, Janet Guthrie is featured, and more
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• On This Day for February 29 - Voting begun on Bosnian independence, Gioachino Rossini is featured, and more
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• On This Day for March 13 - The planet Uranus discovered, Susan B. Anthony is featured, and more
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• On This Day for March 28 - Constantinople renamed Istanbul, Virginia Woolf is featured, and more
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• On This Day for March 1 - Establishment of Yellowstone as world's first national park, Dalia Grybauskaite is featured, and more
  This message contains graphics. If you do not see the graphics, click here to view . March 01 FEATURED BIOGRAPHY 1956 Dalia Grybauskaite READ MORE F…
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• On This Day for April 1 - Creation of Nunavut, Sergey Rachmaninoff is featured, and more
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• On This Day for February 23 - Alamo besieged by Santa Anna's Mexican army, W.E.B. Du Bois is featured, and more
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• On This Day for April 10 - Anschluss approved in Austria, Max von Sydow is featured, and more
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• On This Day for February 25 - Ousting of Marcos in the Philippines, Pierre-Auguste Renoir is featured, and more
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• On This Day for March 15 - Julius Caesar assassinated on the Ides of March, Ruth Bader Ginsburg is featured, and more
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• On This Day for March 30 - Failed assassination attempt against U.S. President Ronald Reagan, Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun is featured, and more
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• On This Day for March 11 - Japan struck by earthquake and tsunami, Dorothy Gish is featured, and more
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• On This Day for February 17 - Vietnam invaded by China, Michael Jordan is featured, and more
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• On This Day for April 8 - Celebration of the Buddha's birth, Kofi Annan is featured, and more
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• On This Day for February 6 - Accession of Elizabeth II, Ronald Reagan is featured, and more
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• On This Day for March 2 - Moroccan independence declared, Sarojini Naidu is featured, and more
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• On This Day for March 9 - Battle of the Monitor and Merrimack, Carrie Chapman Catt is featured, and more
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• On This Day for February 16 - Power in Cuba seized by Fidel Castro, Kim Jong Il is featured, and more
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• On This Day for March 5 - Boston Massacre, Soong Mei-ling is featured, and more
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• On This Day for March 16 - My Lai Massacre, Caroline Herschel is featured, and more
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• On This Day for April 2 - Death of Pope John Paul II, Charlemagne is featured, and more
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• On This Day for March 21 - Closing of Alcatraz prison, St. Angela Merici is featured, and more
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• On This Day for February 22 - Cloning of Dolly, George Washington is featured, and more
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• On This Day for April 30 - George Washington inaugurated, Édouard Manet is featured, and more
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• On This Day for August 4 - Gibraltar captured by Britain, Barack Obama is featured, and more
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• On This Day for June 21 - Japanese defenses destroyed on Okinawa, Benazir Bhutto is featured, and more
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• On This Day for April 17 - Canada Act proclaimed, Nikita Khrushchev is featured, and more
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• On This Day for May 21 - First nonstop solo transatlantic flight made by Charles Lindbergh, Malcolm Fraser is featured, and more
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• On This Day for June 28 - Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Peter Paul Rubens is featured, and more
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• On This Day for April 11 - Napoleon's abdication at Fontainebleau, Charles Evans Hughes is featured, and more
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• On This Day for April 15 - Sinking of the Titanic, Leonardo da Vinci is featured, and more
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• On This Day for July 7 - Hawaiian Islands annexed by the United States, Marc Chagall is featured, and more
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• On This Day for June 10 - First “witch” hanged in Salem Village, Judy Garland is featured, and more
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• On This Day for May 20 - U.S. Homestead Act signed, James Stewart is featured, and more
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• On This Day for June 13 - Historic meeting between North and South Korean leaders, Christo is featured, and more
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• On This Day for June 12 - Election of Boris Yeltsin, Anne Frank is featured, and more
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