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2019 ‐
President Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort sentenced to a further 43 months in jail, to add to his previous 47 months
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2018 ‐
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is fired via a tweet from President Donald Trump
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2012 ‐
Encyclopaedia Britannica announces that it will no longer publish printed versions of its encyclopaedia
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1991 ‐
Exxon pays $1-billion dollars in fines & cleanup of Valdez oil spill
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1979 ‐
European Monetary System is established, ECU created
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1970 ‐
Digital Equipment Corp introduces PDP-11 minicomputer
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1950 ‐
General Motors Corporation reports record net earnings of $656,434,232
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1913 ‐
Kansas legislature approved censorship of motion pictures
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1900 ‐
In France the length of the working day for women and children is limited by law to 11 hours.
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1869 ‐
Arkansas legislature passes anti-Ku Klux Klan law
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1852 ‐
Uncle Sam cartoon figure made its debut in the New York Lantern weekly
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1781 ‐
William Herschel expands the known Solar System with his discovery of Uranus
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