| Today in History |
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2021 ‐
The EU agrees to open its borders to vaccinated travelers from safe countries
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2020 ‐
Greenhouse gas emissions dropped 17% worldwide in April 2020 when world was in lockdown, in study published in "Nature Climate Change"
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1976 ‐
Gold ownership legalized in Australia
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1964 ‐
US diplomats find at least 40 secret microphones in Moscow embassy
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1960 ‐
Belgian parliament requires rest day for self employed
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1941 ‐
Germany occupiers in Holland forbid bicycle taxis
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1930 ‐
White women win voting rights in South Africa
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1921 ‐
Congress sharply curbs immigration, setting a national quota system
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1910 ‐
Passage of Earth through tail of Halley's Comet causes near-panic
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1906 ‐
Federated Boys' Club (Boys' Club of America) organizes
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1892 ‐
Charles Brady King invents pneumatic hammer
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1883 ‐
William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody opened Buffalo Bill's Wild West show in Omaha, Nebraska
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1856 ‐
Senator Charles Sumner of Massachesetts speaks out against slavery
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1792 ‐
Russian army enters Poland
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1780 ‐
About midday, near-total darkness descends on New England, now known to be caused by forest fires in Canada
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