2019
Google employee Emma Haruka Iwao broke a world record by calculating Pi right down to 31.4 trillion digits!
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2018
Finland became the world’s happiest country.
The World Happiness Report change meant Norway slipped into second place, while Burundi was classed as the unhappiest country in the world.
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2018
Identical twins were no longer identical after one returned from a mission to space.
Astronaut Scott Kelly spent one year in space, and upon his return, NASA found his genes had changed by 7%.
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1997
US president Bill Clinton tore his knee and required surgery.
Clinton said, “I feel great, they did a terrific job.”
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1995
The population of space hit a new record with 13 astronauts.
At the time, it was the highest recorded space population. It happened when a Russian Soyuz spacecraft took two Russians and an American astronaut into space.
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1967
US President John F. Kennedy’s body was moved to its final resting place in Virginia.
The ill-fated President had been temporarily interred in Arlington National Cemetery shortly after his assassination in 1963. It wasn’t until 1967 that the official burial site was completed, just a few feet away from where he had first been buried. The re-interment was held in secret, and a private ceremony was held for JFK’s widow, brothers, and President Lyndon Johnson.
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1942
Anne Miller became the first American patient to be treated with penicillin.
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1931
The first theater with a movie being projected from the back of the room was opened in New York City.
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1923
President Warren G. Harding became the first president to pay taxes in the US.
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1912
US best-selling cookie “Oreo” trademarked its name.
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1899
German inventor Ferdinand von Zeppelin granted a patent for the navigable balloon.
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1743
Boston became the first American city to have a town meeting.
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