| Today in History |
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2005 ‐
Kuwait permits women's suffrage in a 35-23 National Assembly vote
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1992 ‐
Polls show Perot, Bush & Clinton could be in a deadlock
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1988 ‐
US Surgeon General C Everett Koop reports nicotine as addictive as heroin
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1960 ‐
Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser, at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California
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1940 ‐
Nazis forbid non-professional auto workers
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1936 ‐
1st British air hostess Daphne Kearley flies to France
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1927 ‐
US Supreme Court ruled bootleggers must pay income tax
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1910 ‐
US Bureau of Mines forms
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1881 ‐
World's 1st electric tram enters service in Lichterfelder (near Berlin)
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1866 ‐
Charles E. Hires invents "Hires Root Beer"
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1862 ‐
Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir builds 1st automobile
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1860 ‐
Chicago: Republican convention selects Abraham Lincoln as candidate
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1817 ‐
Mississippi River steamboat service begins
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1771 ‐
The Battle of Alamance, a pre-American Revolutionary War battle between local militia and a group of rebels called "The Regulators", occurs in present-day Alamance County, North Carolina.
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