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The World Trade Organization was established in 1995. | 2
Isaac Asimov, acclaimed science fact and fiction writer, was born in 1920. | 3
Potter Josiah Wedgwood died in 1795. |
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Monster.com went live in 1998. | 5
George Washington Carver died in 1943. | 6
The Blizzard of 1996 hit the East Coast. | 7
The closing day of the 7th Annual Conference of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) occurred in 2003. | 8
Marco Polo died in 1324. | 9
President Richard M. Nixon was born in 1913. | 10
The phrase "Where's the beef?" was uttered for the first time on a television commercial for Wendy's in 1984. |
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Painter Charles E. Burchfield died in 1967. | 12
John Hancock, first signer of the Declaration of Independence, was born in 1737. | 13
Andrew Jackson wrote a letter to Martin van Buren regarding the Nullification Crisis in 1833. | 14
Matthew Fontaine Maury, a pioneer in oceanography and hydrography, was born in 1806. | 15
New York’s Mayor William Strong appointed Colonel George E. Waring as Commissioner of Street Cleaning in 1895. | 16
Ellen Russell Emerson, American ethnologist, was born in 1837. | 17
A 6.9 magnitude earthquake destroyed over one hundred thousand buildings in Kobe, Japan, in 1995. |
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Daniel Webster was born in 1782. | 19
The National Institutes of Health director announced in 1999 that the NIH would fund research using "master cells" from human embryos. | 20
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin died in 1924. | 21
George Orwell died of tuberculosis in 1950. | 22
The Chinese Telephone Exchange, in San Francisco's Chinatown, was closed in 1949. | 23
The Twenty-Fourth Amendment to the Constitution was ratified in 1964. | 24
In 1916, the Supreme Court upheld the Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution, ruling that the federal government had the authority to collect taxes on income. |
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Nellie Bly completed a journey "around the world in less than 80 days" in 1890. | 26
Today is Republic Day in India. | 27
Lewis Carroll was born in 1832. | 28
In 1986, the space shuttle Challenger exploded, 73 seconds into flight. | 29
The Académie Française, which became one of the most famous literary societies in Europe, was founded in 1635. | 30
The Yogi Bear Show premiered in 1961. | 31
Samuel Loyd, mathematician and inventor of the "15 Puzzle," was born in 1841. |
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