| Today in History |
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2018 ‐
California overtakes Great Britain to become the worlds fifth largest economy
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2007 ‐
Greensburg, Kansas is almost completely destroyed by a 1.7m wide EF-5 tornado
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1989 ‐
NASA launches Magellan probe to Venus from Space Shuttle Atlantis
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1970 ‐
National Guard kills 4 at Kent State in Ohio
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1957 ‐
Alan Freed hosts "Rock n' Roll Show" 1st prime-time network rock show
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1916 ‐
At request of US, Germany curtails its submarine warfare
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1904 ‐
Construction begins by the United States on the Panama Canal
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1893 ‐
Cowboy Bill Pickett invents bulldogging, the skill of grabbing cattle by the horns and wrestling them to the ground
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1846 ‐
US state Michigan ends death penalty
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1776 ‐
Rhode Island declares independence from Great Britain
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