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2020 ‐
America officially begins withdrawing from the World Health Organization
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1983 ‐
Supreme Court rules retirement plans can't pay women less
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1970 ‐
California passes 1st "no fault" divorce law
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1939 ‐
German Nazis close last Jewish enterprises
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1928 ‐
1st all-talking motion picture shown in NY (Lights of NY)
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1903 ‐
George Wyman arrives in NYC by motorcycle 51 days out of San Francisco
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1885 ‐
Louis Pasteur successfully give an anti-rabies vaccine to 9-year-old Joseph Meister, saving his life
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1882 ‐
14 Russian Jews from Bilu arrive in Jaffa, Palestine
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1858 ‐
Lyman Blake patents shoe manufacturing machine
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1853 ‐
William Wells Brown publishes "Clotel", 1st novel by an African American
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1789 ‐
French Revolution: the National Assembly forms a committee of thirty members to write a new constitution
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1785 ‐
US Congress unanimously resolves the name of US currency to the "dollar" and adopts decimal coinage
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1775 ‐
Congress issues "Declaration of the Causes & Necessity of Taking up Arms", listing grievances but denying intent to be independent
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