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2020 ‐
US COVID-19 death toll passes 10,000 in six weeks, with more than 356,000 American infected, New York death toll reaches 4,758
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2016 ‐
First baby born with DNA from 3 parents through mitochondrial transfer in Mexico
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1992 ‐
Microsoft announced Windows 3.1, upgrading Windows 3.0
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1981 ‐
Yugoslav government sends troops to Kosovo
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1980 ‐
Post It Notes introduced
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1968 ‐
94.5% of East German voters approve new socialist constitution
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1957 ‐
NYC ends trolley car service
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1938 ‐
Teflon invented by Roy J. Plunkett
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1925 ‐
1st film shown on an airplane (British Air)
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1919 ‐
Bavaria proclaims itself a soviet republic
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1917 ‐
US declares war on Germany, enters World War I
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1916 ‐
German parliament approves unrestricted submarine warfare
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1909 ‐
North Pole reached by Americans Robert Peary & Matthew Henson
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1896 ‐
First modern Summer Olympic Games open in Athens, Greece
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1889 ‐
George Eastman begins selling his Kodak flexible rolled film for the first time
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1848 ‐
Jews of Prussia granted equality
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1772 ‐
Catherine the Great Empress of Russia, ends tax on men with beards, enacted by Tsar Peter the Great in 1698
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