2013
The French government made it so that Parisian women could legally wear pants.
The 213-year-old ban was officially lifted on this day.
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2004
Mark Zuckerberg founded the social networking website Facebook.
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2000
The very first Sims game was released for PC in North America.
How could anyone possibly forget their time playing the original Sims game? This unique life simulator allowed players to control the lives, relationships, careers, and homes of the game’s characters, or “sims.”
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1998
Bill gates had a pie thrown in his face while visiting EU officials in Brussels, Belgium.
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1972
The former United States Senator Strom Thurmond sent a secret memo to President Richard Nixon’s aide, saying John Lennon should be deported.
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1962
The Sun, the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn all aligned.
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1957
The electric typewriter went on sale for the first time in Syracuse, New York, USA.
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1946
The first Mormon Pioneers left their homes in Nauvoo, Illinois, and began the long trek to the Salt Lake Valley.
The Mormon Exodus from Illinois happened shortly after the death of the Church of the Latter-Day Saints leader, Joseph Smith. At the time, the church and its leaders practiced their new religion in extremely unorthodox and scandalous ways. They were all but driven out of Illinois after the church’s neighbors grew increasingly hostile towards them.
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1938
Adolf Hitler appointed himself as the head of the Armed Forces High Command.
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1936
Dr. John J. Livingood reported the first synthetic production of a natural form of radium.
Radium was the first radioactive substance produced synthetically.
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1932
The Winter Olympics opened in Lake Placid, New York.
It was officially known as the III Olympic Winter Games.
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1866
American religious leader Mary Baker was allegedly cured of her spinal injury by reading The Bible.
After reading Matthew 9:2, she claimed that she arose, dusted herself off, and was in much better health.
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1859
The Codex Sinaiticus – one of the oldest known copies of the bible – was discovered in Egypt.
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