2014
US President Barack Obama met with the Dalai Lama amid warnings from China.
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2014
American internet star and actor Cameron Dallas had 13 stitches after stepping on a can that split his foot open.
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1972
US President Richard Nixon met with Chinese leader Mao Zedong in Beijing to finalize a peace deal between their two countries.
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1972
The USSR’s uncrewed Luna 20 lunar lander successfully touched down on the surface of the Moon.
The purpose of the mission was to collect a lunar soil sample, much like the previous successful mission in 1970. Luna 20 was the Soviet Union’s second spacecraft to make it to the moon and safely return a sample to Earth. This mission’s sample weighed just 1.94 ounces (55 grams) and differed from the previous mission’s sample in its composition.
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1970
The Jackson 5 performed on TV for the first time on American Bandstand.
The song they performed was “I Want You Back.”
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1965
Malcolm X was assassinated in New York City, USA.
Malcolm X, AKA Malcolm Little, was shot in the chest with a shotgun while preparing an address in the Audubon Ballroom in Manhattan, New York.
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1958
Gerald Holtom presented his peace symbol design to the British Direct Action Committee, who accepted it immediately.
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1947
Edwin Land presented his Polaroid photo product, the world’s first instant photos, in New York City.
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1925
The first issue of “The New Yorker” was published.
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1878
The first telephone directory was issued, which consisted of a single card with 50 names and addresses in Connecticut, USA.
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1864
Saint Francis Xavier Church in Baltimore, Maryland, became the first church exclusively for blacks in the US.
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1842
The first sewing machine was patented in the US.
Invented by John Greenough, the machine consisted of a needle with two points and an eye in the center.
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1440
The Prussian Confederation was formed.
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