| Today in History |
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2020 ‐
US GDP falls 4.8% for the financial quarter, officially ending the country's growth streak. Worst contraction since 2008.
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2019 ‐
Indonesia is plans to relocate its capital from Jakarta due to the city sinking, according to a government minister
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2015 ‐
German Measles is declared eradicated from North and South America - 1st world region to do so
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2004 ‐
Oldsmobile builds its final car ending 107 years of production
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1990 ‐
Wrecking cranes began tearing down the Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg Gate
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1974 ‐
US President Richard Nixon said he will release edited tapes made in the White House
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1961 ‐
ABC's "Wide World of Sports" debuts
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1946 ‐
28 former Japanese leaders indicted in Tokyo as war criminals
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1939 ‐
Whitestone Bridge connecting the New York boroughs of Bronx and Queens opens
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1930 ‐
Telephone connection Britain-Australia goes into service
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1902 ‐
Congress extends the Chinese Exclusion Act (of 1882) prohibiting immigration of Chinese laborers from territories to the mainland, a rule clearly aimed at Chinese in the Philippines
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1892 ‐
Charlie Reilly is baseball's 1st pinch hitter
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1886 ‐
1st public Dutch electricity service begins
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1852 ‐
1st edition of Peter Roget's Thesaurus published in Great Britain
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1813 ‐
Ist US Rubber patent granted to Jacob F. Hummel
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