2017
President Donald Trump banned seven countries from entering the US.
The “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States” has been open to many challenges as the countries banned were predominantly Muslim.
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1996
Germany first observed the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
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1984
Michael Jackson’s hair caught fire while filming a Pepsi commercial in front of 3,000 fans.
The accident happened when a firework display sent sparks flying behind him.
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1973
The Vietnam War officially ended, for the US at least, after the Paris Peace Accords were signed.
While this was the last day of fighting for US troops in Vietnam, the peace between North and South Vietnam lasted less than one day. It took another two years of fighting before North Vietnam conquered South Vietnam.
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1967
The Outer Space Treaty was signed to prevent the use of nuclear weapons being utilized in space.
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1967
Apollo 1 test launch failed, and astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger B. Chaffee all died.
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1951
The first of 126 nuclear tests started at the Nevada Test Site.
They called the first device “Able,” and it was a one kiloton blast that landed on a dry lakebed at Frenchman Flat. It took over 100 tests at the site before people saw the terrible effects the experiments were having on the locals.
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1944
Leningrad’s siege by Germans ended in the wake of 650,000 perished citizens.
The siege lasted 872 days, making it one of the longest blockades in history. It was possibly one of the most destructive and costliest too.
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1941
Peruvian ambassador Ricardo Rivera-Schreiber gave a warning that Japan would attack Pearl Harbor.
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1926
The theory of Wave Mechanics by physicist Erwin Schrödinger was first taught in lectures.
Wave Mechanics is a method of analysis of the behavior of atomic phenomena with particles represented by wave equations.
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1880
A patent for his electric lamp invention was given to Thomas Edison.
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1591
Scottish schoolmaster Dr. John Fian who had “a pact with the devil,” was found guilty of witchcraft.
Upon his conviction, Fian was horrifically tortured, strangled to death then burned.
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