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2017 ‐
Bodleian Library reveals earliest evidence of the zero symbol in 3rd or 4th Century Bakhshali (Pakistan) manuscript, through carbon dating
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2015 ‐
14 yr old Texan Ahmed Mohamed arrested at school when home-made clock assumed to be a bomb
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1985 ‐
"The Golden Girls", starring Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan, and Estelle Getty, debuts on NBC
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1973 ‐
Israel shoots down 13 Syrian MIG-21s
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1969 ‐
Male voters of Swiss Canton Schaffhausen reject female suffrage
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1872 ‐
Britain pays US$15½m for damages during Civil War
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1867 ‐
Karl Marx publishes "Das Kapital" Volume 1, his theory of the Capitalist system and how it is doomed to destroy itself
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1848 ‐
Alexander Stewart opens the 1st US department store, “The Marble Palace” in downtown New York City
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1847 ‐
US Marines under General Scott enter Mexico City (halls of Montezuma)
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1814 ‐
Francis Scott Key pens the poem "Defence of Fort M'Henry", later known as "The Star-Spangled Banner" while witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry from a ship in Baltimore harbor
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