2017
Montenegro became the 29th country to join NATO.
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2006
Serbia declared its independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro.
The decision followed a referendum in May of that year which showed that 55% of voters favored independence. The last time Serbia was an independent state was in 1918.
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1998
A strike began at a General Motors parts factory.
The strike lasted a total of seven weeks and extended to other GM plants.
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1991
NASA’s STS-40 became the first spaceflight with three women to be launched into space.
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1968
Sirhan Sirhan assassinated Robert F. Kennedy, the late President Kennedy’s younger brother.
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1956
The District Court ruled that segregation was unconstitutional in Montgomery.
The Supreme Court cemented this decision on November 13.
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1940
The first artificial rubber tires went on display in Akron, Ohio, US.
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1940
Germany invaded France during WWII.
The Germans weren’t prepared for the resistance they found in France south of Somme.
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1917
Registration of US men aged between 21 and 31 began for troops for WWI.
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1876
Americans were introduced to bananas.
Bananas don’t naturally grow in the US, and on this day, they were presented at a food fair in Philadelphia. The bananas were an instant hit, and the rest is history.
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1851
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, an anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher, was first published.
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1846
Baltimore and Philadelphia were linked up by telegraph.
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1794
The US Neutrality Act was enacted.
The Neutrality Act makes it illegal for any American citizen to start a war with any country in which the US is at peace with.
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1661
Isaac Newton was admitted as a student to Cambridge University’s Trinity College.
Newton, who was older than most of the other students, originally entered the college with the aim of attaining a law degree. It was only in 1663 that he finally began to take an interest in science and math, the realms to which he ended up contributing most.
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