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British House of Commons votes to make the upper chamber, the House of Lords, 100% elected. |
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Apple Inc. is granted the patent to the iPod. |
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Mass protest outside the National Assembly of Kuwait building for womens voting rights in Kuwait. |
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New Democracy wins the national elections in Greece. |
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The first democratically elected Palestinian parliament is formed. |
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The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc.that parodies of an original work are generally covered by the doctrine of fair use. |
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Iran and the United Kingdom break diplomatic relations after a row over Salman Rushdie and his controversial novel. |
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The State Council of the Peoples Republic of China declares martial law in Lhasa, Tibet. |
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Colombia becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty. |
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Golda Meir elected as the first female Prime Minister of Israel. |
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In Selma, Alabama, State troopers and local law enforcement forcefully break up a group of 600 civil rights marchers. The event was televised and was dubbed Bloody Sunday. |
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Korean War: Operation Ripper - In Korea, United Nations troops led by General Matthew Ridgeway begin an assault against Chinese forces. |
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Cold War: The Soviet Union issues a statement denying that Klaus Fuchs served as a Soviet spy. |
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The Dodecanese islands officially become part of Greece again, ending the Italian rule. |
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The Kuomintang and Communist Party of China resume full-fledged Civil War. |
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World War II: American troops seize the Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine River at Remagen, establish a bridgehead on Germany soil and in desperate fighting begin to establish a lodgement, which events shakes up the whole Western Front and greatly hastens the end of WW-II. |
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World War II: In violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles, Germany reoccupies the Rhineland. |
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World War I: Finland forms an alliance with Germany. |
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Prince William of Wied arrives in Albania to begin his reign. |
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Roald Amundsen first announces to the world that his expedition has reached the South Pole, though they had arrived on December 14, 1911. |
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Revolution in Mexico. |
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Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the telephone (patent # 174,465). |
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American Civil War: Battle of Pea Ridge - Union forces led by General Samuel Curtis defeat Confederate troops under General Earl Van Dorn at Pea Ridge in northwestern Arkansas. |
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United States Senator Daniel Webster gives his "Seventh of March" speech in which he endorses the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war. |
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The Great mahele (land division) is signed in Hawaii. |
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Brazil marines sail up the Rio Negro (Argentina) and attack the temporary naval base of Carmen de Patagones, Argentina. They are defeated by the local citizens. |
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Shrigley Abduction: Ellen Turner, a wealthy heiress in Cheshire, England is abducted by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a future politician in colonial New Zealand. |
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Napoleon I of France meets troops of the Fifth Regiment sent by Louis XVIII at Grenoble, and convinces them to join him on his march to Paris. |
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Napoleon I of France wins the Battle of Craonne. |
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The Royal Institution is founded. |
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Napoleon I of France captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives. |
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The French army enters Rome: the birth of the Roman Republic. |
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Condemnation of 219 philosophical and theological theses by Stephen Tempier, Bishop of Paris. |
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Roman Emperor Constantine I decrees that the dies Solis Invicti (sun-day) is the day of rest in the Empire. |
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Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius dies and is succeeded by co-Emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, an unprecedented political arrangement in the Roman Empire. |
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