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2021 ‐
New species of ancient human announced after finding of massive fossilized skull - Homo longi "Dragon Man" from North East China
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2021 ‐
New type of ancient human announced "Nesher Ramla Homo" lived 140,000-120,000 years ago, a possible ancestor of Neanderthals, uncovered in Ramla, Israel
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1998 ‐
Windows 98 is released
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1962 ‐
Supreme Court rules NY school prayer unconstitutional
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1943 ‐
Racial unrest in Detroit
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1938 ‐
"A Tisket A Tasket" by Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb hits #1
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1929 ‐
US President Herbert Hoover authorizes building of Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam)
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1868 ‐
US President Andrew Johnson passes a law that government workers would work 8 hr day
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1867 ‐
1st barbed wire patented by Lucien B. Smith of Ohio
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1835 ‐
1st building constructed at Yerba Buena (now San Francisco)
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1798 ‐
US passes Alien Act allowing president to deport dangerous aliens
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1788 ‐
Virginia becomes 10th state to ratify US constitution
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