On this day in
1881,
Thomas Edison and
Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
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On this day in
1890,
Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
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On this day in
1919 the
League of Nations is founded.
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On this day in
1924, the 1924 Winter Olympics opens in Chamonix, in the French Alps, inaugurating the first ever Winter Olympic Games.
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On this day in
1947,
Thomas Goldsmith Jr. files a patent for a "Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device", the first ever electronic game.
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On this day in
1971,
Charles Manson and three female "Family" members are found guilty of the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders.
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On this day in
1971,
Idi Amin leads a coup deposing
Milton Obote and becomes Uganda's president.
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On this day in
1981,
Jiang Qing, the widow of Mao Zedong, is sentenced to death.
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On this day in
1993, five people are shot outside the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Two are killed and three wounded.
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On this day in
1995, Russia almost launches a nuclear attack after it mistakes Black Brant XII, a Norwegian research rocket, for a US Trident missile.
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On this day in
1996, Billy Bailey becomes the last person to be hanged in the USA.
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On this day in
1998, during a historic visit to Cuba,
Pope John Paul II demands political reforms and the release of political prisoners while condemning US attempts to isolate the country. Meanwhile, in the States, everybody loses their goddamn minds over a blowjob.
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On this day in
2005, a stampede at the Mandhradevi temple in Maharashtra, India kills at least 258.
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On this day in
2011, the first wave of the Egyptian revolution begins in Egypt, with a series of street demonstrations, marches, rallies, acts of civil disobedience, riots, labour strikes, and violent clashes in Cairo, Alexandria, and throughout other cities in Egypt.
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