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| 1477 | William Caxton publishes the first dated book printed in England. It is a translation from the French of The Dictes and Sayings of the Philosopers by Earl Rivers. | |
| 1626 | St. Peter’s Cathedral in Rome is officially dedicated. | |
| 1861 | The first provisional meeting of the Confederate Congress is held in Richmond, Virginia. | |
| 1865 | Mark Twain’s first story “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” is published in the New York Saturday Press. | |
| 1901 | The second Hay-Pauncefote Treaty is signed. The United States is given extensive rights by Britain for building and operating a canal through Central America. | |
| 1905 | The Norwegian Parliament elects Prince Charles of Denmark to be the next King of Norway. Prince Charles takes the name Haakon VII. | |
| 1906 | Anarchists bomb St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. | |
| 1912 | Cholera breaks out in Constantinople, in the Ottoman Empire. | |
| 1921 | New York City considers varying work hours to avoid long traffic jams. | |
| 1928 | Mickey mouse makes his film debut in Steamboat Willie, the first animated talking picture. | |
| 1936 | The main span of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco is joined. | |
| 1939 | The Irish Republican Army explodes three bombs in Piccadilly Circus. | |
| 1943 | The RAF bombs Berlin, using 440 aircraft and losing nine of those and 53 air crew members; damage to the German capital is light, with 131 dead. | |
| 1949 | The U.S. Air Force grounds B-29s after two crashes and 23 deaths in three days. | |
| 1950 | The Bureau of Mines discloses its first production of oil from coal in practical amounts. | |
| 1968 | Soviets recover the Zond 6 spacecraft after a flight around the moon. | |
| 1978 | Peoples Temple cult leader Jim Jones leads his followers to a mass murder-suicide in Jonestown, Guyana, hours after cult members killed Congressman Leo J. Ryan of California. | |
| 1983 | Argentina announces its ability to produce enriched uranium for nuclear weapons. | |
| 1984 | The Soviet Union helps deliver American wheat during the Ethiopian famine. | |
| 1991 | The Croatian city of Vukovar surrenders to the Yugoslav People’s Army and allied Serb paramilitary forces after an 87-day siege. | |
| 1993 | Twenty-one political parties approve a new constitution for South Africa that expands voter rights and ends the rule of the country’s white minority. | |
| 2002 | UN weapons inspectors under Hans Blix arrive in Iraq. | |
| 2003 | Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court rules the state’s ban on same-sex marriages is unconstitutional; the legislature fails to act within the mandated 180 days, and on May 17, 2004, Massachusetts becomes the first US state to legalize same-sex marriage. |
Your golden retriever may be good for your heart
New giant geoglyph of orca discovered in Peru desert
Underwater castle with ancient ‘fairy chimneys’ found
Boston Dynamics robot Atlas does backflips
Robotics company Boston Dynamics shared a video of Atlas, a humanoid robot, limbering up with some vertical jumps and twists and then capping off its display with a backflip. At the end of the video, when the robot completely sticks the landing, Atlas puts up its arms in a sign of victory.
Convicted murderer elected to school board seat
Voters recently elected Thomas Seaba to the East Otero School Board in La Junta. Seaba spent more than a decade in a North Carolina prison after he pleaded guilty to second-degree murder for the death of a fellow Marine in the ‘90s.
Brooklyn woman punched in subway for complaining about 'manspreading'
Sam Saia, 37, was riding the N train at 7:45 a.m. EST, sitting at the end of the car when the man next to her pushed her to the side by spreading his legs wide open. When she requested the man to give her some room, he started yelling, using a range of sexist slurs.
More explosive evidence could exonerate 'Making a Murderer' star Steven Avery and solve Theresa Halbach's murder
15 men exonerated after being falsely arrested by dishonest cop
After a brief hearing by Cook County prosecutors, Judge LeRoy Martin Jr. dismissed the charges as it was confirmed that the convictions had no proper base.
Twitter finally goes after white supremacists
Wingnut troll 'Baked Alaska' throws a fit after being banned from Twitter
As Twitter moved to unverify racists, the social media platform took it a step further with Tim “Baked Alaska”
Gionet. He quickly became a top-trending Twitter topic on Wednesday—and
it had nothing to do with the delicious dessert that bares the same
name. Nazis Are Throwing Tantrums Over Losing Twitter Verification And It Is Glorious
Twitter Nazis are the most delicate of all the snowflakes.
'Christian' wingnut who pushed ‘natural marriage’ resigns after same-sex tryst at Ohio office
A 'christian' “family values” wingnut has stepped down from his post in Ohio’s state House over
revelations that he engaged in “inappropriate conduct” with another man.
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