| Today in History |
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2020 ‐
California becomes the 1st US state to pass a law allowing for reparations for black residents and descendants of slaves
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1996 ‐
Ron moves to North Carolina from Wichita Kansas
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1993 ‐
US General Colin Powell retires at 56
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1968 ‐
1st Boeing 747 rolls out
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1919 ‐
Elaine Massacre: Arkansas state militia and rioters kill over 200 hundred Black people in response to sharecroppers' attempt to organize against landowners; trials of survivors for murder leads to Supreme Court enacted judicial reforms
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1898 ‐
City of NY established
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1878 ‐
1st Portuguese immigrants arrive in Hawaii
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1846 ‐
Anesthetic ether is used for the 1st time, by American dentist Dr William Morton who extracts a tooth
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1841 ‐
Samuel Slocum patents the stapler
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1787 ‐
1st US voyage around the world - Columbia leaves Boston
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1777 ‐
Continental Congress, flees to York, Pennsylvania, as British forces advance
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