2021
Kyle Larson holds off Martin Truex Jr in the NASCAR Cup Series Championship Race at Phoenix Raceway to earn his 10th win of the season and claim his first Cup Series championship.
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2021
Attempt to assassinate Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi through drone attack on his home in Baghdad.
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2005
RedOctane released Guitar Hero for PlayStation 2 in North America.
While this was the first rhythm-based guitar game to hit US shelves, it wasn’t the first to use a guitar-shaped controller. It was modeled off a game called Guitar Freaks, which was only released in Japan. Guitar Hero’s developers were surprised by how wildly popular the game ended up being, as they merely thought it would be a fun game to create.
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2000
Hilary Clinton made history when she became the first-ever First Lady to win a seat for the Democrats in the Senate.
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1956
President Eisenhower won his second term with the most significant Republican win since Abraham Lincoln’s in 1860.
Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States of America, and he won with 34 million votes, winning in a total of 41 states, and he obtained 457 electoral college votes.
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1912
The opera company The Deutsche Opernhaus (now know as Deutsche Oper Berlin) was founded. They opened with a performance of The Deutsche Opernhaus.
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1893
Colorado became the second US state to give women the right to vote.
The first state to change in favor of women’s suffrage was Wyoming in 1890, and Colorado wasn’t far behind. The matter was decided in Colorado through a public referendum. About 55% of Colorado’s population voted, with women’s suffrage winning with just over half the votes.
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1875
The English explorer Verney Cameron became the first European to cross Africa from east to west.
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1800
Paris barred women from legally wearing pants.
There were some exceptions, like horse riding and bicycling. The law wasn’t annulled until 2013.
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1786
The Stoughton Musical Society, the oldest musical society in the US, was formed.
They also won the nation’s first singing contest in 1790.
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1783
John Austin became the last person to be publicly hanged on London’s Tyburn Gallows.
The hanging took place in Tyburn Village, which had been the official site for hangings for nearly 600 years. Future hangings would occur outside Newgate at the “New Drop.”
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1775
Lord Dunmore promised freedom to every slave who enlisted into the British Army.
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1665
The London Gazette published its first edition under the name The Oxford Gazette.
It is the longest-running and continuously published newspaper in the UK. King Charles II moved his court to Oxford to escape London’s plague in 1666 and established the government paper there. Once the epidemic subsided, he moved himself, his court, the paper, and the paper’s name to London.
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1631
Using Johannes Kepler’s predictions, French scientist Pierre Gassendi became the first person to witness Mercury’s transit between the Earth and the Sun.
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1492
The Ensisheim Meteorite – the oldest meteorite with an observed fall – struck the Earth in France.
Named after the village it landed in, the meteorite weighed 280 lbs (127kg) and is displayed at a local museum.
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