Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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| | 1526 | Emperor Charles V marries princess Isabella of Portugal |
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| | 1535 | Bishop Tomas de Berlanga discovers Galapagos Islands |
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| | 1578 | Queen Elizabeth I gives Johan Casimir 20,000 pounds to aid Dutch rebellion |
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| | 1624 | England declares war on Spain |
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| | 1629 | King Charles I dissolved Parliament; he called it back 11 years later |
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| | 1661 | French King Louis XIV ends office of premier |
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| | 1681 | English Quaker William Penn receives charter from Charles II, making him sole proprietor of colonial American territory Pennsylvania |
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| | 1734 | Spanish army under Don Carlos (III) draws into Naples |
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| | 1789 | Franklin College founded |
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| | 1791 | John Stone, Concord, Massachusetts, patents a pile driver |
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| | 1791 | Pope condemns France's Civil Constitution of the clergy |
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| | 1847 | 1st money minted in Hawaii |
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| | 1849 | Abraham Lincoln applies for a patent; only U.S. president to do so |
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| | 1862 | Great Britain and France recognizes independence of Zanzibar |
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| | 1862 | U.S. issues 1st paper money ($5, $10, $20, $50, $100, $500 and $1000) |
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| | 1864 | Grant is named commander of the Union armies |
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| | 1864 | Red River campaign LA |
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| | 1865 | Battle of Monroe's Crossroads, North Carolina |
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| | 1874 | Purdue University (Indiana) admits it's 1st student |
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| | 1876 | 1st telephone call made (Alexander Graham Bell to Thomas Watson) |
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| | 1880 | General Wolseley opens new legislative council in Pretoria |
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| | 1880 | Salvation Army of England sets up U.S. welfare and religious activity |
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| | 1888 | 1st performance of Cesar Franck's 'Psyche' |
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| | 1888 | HW Boxing champ John L Sullivan draws Charlie Mitchell in 30 rounds |
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| | 1893 | Ivory Coast becomes a French colony |
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| | 1893 | New Mexico State University cancels it's 1st graduation ceremony, its only graduate Sam Steele was robbed and killed the night before |
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| | 1896 | Bronx acquires O'Brien Square |
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| | 1896 | Charilaos Vasilakos of Greece wins 1st modern marathon in 3:18 |
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| | 1900 | Battle at Driefontein, South-Africa (Boers vs. British army) |
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| | 1902 | Earthquake destroys Turkish city of Tochangri |
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| | 1903 | Harry Gammeter, Cleveland, patents multigraph duplicating machine |
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| | 1903 | Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Montreal AAA in 2 games |
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| | 1905 | Japanese Army captures Mukden (Shenyang) |
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| | 1906 | 1st performance of Maurice Ravel's 'Sonatine' |
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| | 1906 | Coal dust explosion kills 1,060 at Courrieres France |
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| | 1906 | London Underground opens Bakeroo line (Baker Street to Waterloo Line) |
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| | 1909 | Jack Johnson fights Victor McLaglen to no decision in 6 for box title |
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| | 1910 | China ends slavery |
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| | 1910 | Pittsburgh Courier, begins publishing |
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| | 1913 | Stanley Cup: Quebec Bulldogs sweep Sydney (NS) Millionaires in 2 games |
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| | 1913 | William Knox, becomes 1st in American Bowling Congress to bowl 300 |
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| | 1914 | Suffragettes in London damages painter Rokeby's Venus of Velasquez |
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| | 1915 | British expedition Army in Belgium captures Neuve Chapelle |
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| | 1920 | NHL's Quebec Bulldog Jim Malone scores 6 goals vs Ottawa Senators |
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| | 1922 | KLZ-AM in Denver CO begins radio transmissions |
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| | 1922 | State of siege proclaimed during mine strike Johannesburg, South Africa |
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| | 1925 | Walter Mittelholzer is 1st to flies over Demawend mountain, Iran |
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| | 1926 | Run on Belgian banks |
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| | 1927 | Albania mobilize by threat of Serbian, Croatian and Slovenes |
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| | 1927 | Bavaria lifts ban on Hitler's speeches |
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| | 1931 | British Labour party removes fascist Sir Oswald Mosley |
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| | 1933 | Major earthquake in Long Beach, California |
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| | 1933 | Nevada becomes 1st U.S. state to regulate narcotics |
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| | 1934 | Longest undefeated streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (18 games) |
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| | 1934 | U.S. Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Suzanne Davis |
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| | 1934 | U.S. Mens Figure Skating championship won by Roger Turner |
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| | 1939 | 17 villages damaged by hailstones in Hyderabad India |
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| | 1940 | 1st U.S. opera telecast, W2XBS, New York City, I Pagliacci |
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| | 1941 | Lee MacPhail, Dodger GM predicts all players will wear batting helmets |
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| | 1945 | Germany blows-up Wessel Bridge on Rhine |
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| | 1945 | Japan declares Vietnam Independence |
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| | 1945 | Patton's 3rd Army makes contact with Hodge's 1st Army |
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| | 1945 | Tokyo in fire after night time B-29 bombing |
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| | 1945 | U.S. troops lands on Mindanao |
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| | 1946 | Train derailment kills 185 near Aracaju Brazil |
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| | 1948 | 1st civilian to exceed speed of sound-Herb H Hoover, Edwards AFB Ca |
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| | 1949 | Detroit Tiger pitcher Art Houtteman is critically injured in an auto accident but recovers to win 15 games in 1949 |
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| | 1951 | 'Where's Charley?' closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 56 performances |
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| | 1951 | FBI director J. Edgar Hoover declines post of baseball commissioner |
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| | 1952 | Military coup by general Fulgencio Batista in Cuba |
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| | 1956 | General strike in Cyprus protesting exile of archbishop Makarios |
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| | 1956 | Peter Twiss sets new world air record 1,132 mph (1,823 kph) |
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| | 1957 | Thousands of soccer fans riot in Italy |
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| | 1959 | Dorothy Comiskey Rigney, sells 54% of White Sox to Bill Veeck |
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| | 1959 | Tennessee Williams' 'Sweet Bird of Youth,' premieres in New York City |
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| | 1959 | Uprising against Chinese occupation force in Lhasa Tibet |
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| | 1960 | U.S.S.R. agrees to stop nuclear testing |
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| | 1962 | Due to it's no black policy, Phillies leave Jack Tar Harrison Hotel and move to Rocky Point Motel, 20 miles outside Clearwater, Florida |
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| | 1963 | Pete Rose debuts with hits in his 2 1st at bats in spring training |
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| | 1963 | Wilt Chamberlain of NBA San Francisco Warriors scores 70 points vs. Syracuse |
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| | 1964 | U.S. reconnaissance plane shot down over East Germany |
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| | 1965 | Dutch Princess Margriet and Pieter van Vollenhoven, get engaged |
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| | 1966 | 5 time Horse of the Year, Kelso, retires |
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| | 1966 | Dutch crown princess Beatrix marries Claus von Amsberg |
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| | 1966 | North Vietnamese capture U.S. Green Beret Camp at Ashau Valley |
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| | 1968 | Ferry boat sinks in harbor of Wellington, New Zealand (200 killed) |
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| | 1969 | James Earl Ray pleads guilty in murder of Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| | 1970 | Barbra Streisand records 'The Singer' and 'I Can Do It' |
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| | 1970 | South Africa complete 4-0 series drubbing of Australia |
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| | 1971 | Senate approves amendment lowering voting age to 18 |
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| | 1972 | 1st black U.S. political convention opens in Gary, Indiana |
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| | 1972 | Gen Lon Nol becomes President and prince Sirik Matak premier of Cambodia |
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| | 1972 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. |
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| | 1973 | BPAA U.S. Open by Mike McGrath |
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| | 1973 | Morocco adopts constitution |
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| | 1974 | 'Sextet' closes at Bijou Theater New York City after 9 performances |
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| | 1974 | Carol Mann wins LPGA S&H Green Stamp Golf Classic |
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| | 1974 | Christian Democrats win Belgium parliamentary election |
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| | 1974 | Lawrence Rowe completes 302 vs. Eng Bridgetown, 36 fours 1 six |
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| | 1975 | 'Rocky Horror Show' opens at Belasco Theater New York City for 45 performances |
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| | 1975 | Dog spectacles patented in England |
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| | 1977 | Rings of Uranus discovered during occulation of SAO |
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| | 1978 | Soyuz 28 returns to Earth |
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| | 1980 | Willard Scott becomes the weather forcaster on the Today Show |
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| | 1982 | President Reagan proclaims economic sanctions against Libya |
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| | 1982 | Salim Malik scores 100 in 2nd inning of Test Cricket debut (v SL) |
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| | 1982 | Sygyzy: all 9 planets aligned on same side of Sun |
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| | 1982 | Travis Jackson and Happy Chandler elected to Hall of Fame |
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| | 1983 | Walter Alston, Dodgers manager, elected to Hall of Fame |
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| | 1984 | Heavyweight Tim Witherspoon KOs Greg Page |
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| | 1985 | Bonnie Lauer wins Uniden LPGA Golf Invitational |
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| | 1985 | Dallas Maverick coach Dick Motta is 4th NBA coach to win 700 games |
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| | 1985 | French socialists lose election (National Front 9%) |
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| | 1985 | Ice Pairs Championship at Tokyo won by Elena Valova and O Vasiliev (URS) |
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| | 1985 | India beat Pakistan to win 'World Championship of Cricket' |
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| | 1985 | Mens Figure Skating Championship in Tokyo won by Alexandr Fadeev (URS) |
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| | 1986 | Ernie Lombardi, NL MVP in 1938, and Bobby Doerr, elected to Hall of Fame |
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| | 1987 | Vatican formal opposition to test-tube fertilization and embryo transfer |
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| | 1988 | Avalanche at Klosters, a Swiss Ski resort, nearly kills Prince Charles |
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| | 1988 | New York Islanders celebrate Mike Bossy night |
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| | 1990 | 4th American Comedy Award: When Harry Met Sally |
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| | 1990 | Ice Dance Championship at Halifax won by Klimova and Ponomarenko (URS) |
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| | 1990 | Ice Pairs Championship at Halifax won by Gordeeva and Grinkov (URS) |
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| | 1990 | Ladies Figure Skating Champions in Halifax won by Jill Trenary (USA) |
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| | 1990 | Lieutenant General Avril resigns as President of Haiti |
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| | 1990 | Mens Figure Skating Championship in Halifax won by Kurt Browning (CAN) |
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| | 1990 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
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| | 1991 | Eddie Sutton is 1st NCAA coach to lead 4 schools into playoffs |
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| | 1991 | Laura Davies wins LPGA Inamori Golf Classic |
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| | 1991 | Marc Girardelli of Luxembourg clinches his 4th slalom World Cup |
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| | 1991 | Merlene Ottey runs world record 200 m indoor (22.24 sec) |
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| | 1991 | Rico Lieder/Jens Carlowitz/Karsten Just/Thomas Schonlebe walk 4x400m indoor world record (3:03.05) |
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| | 1992 | 6th Soul Train Music Awards: Natalie Cole and Color Me Badd win |
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| | 1992 | Sandra Seuser/Katrin Schreiter/Annet Hesselbarth/Grit Breuer walk female indoor world record 4x400m (3:27.22) |
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| | 1994 | 1 million Greeks attend Melina Mercouri's funeral |
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| | 1995 | Car bomb explodes in Karachi at shite mosque, 17+ killed |
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| | 1995 | Chiel Meijering's 'St. Louis Blues,' premieres in Arnhem |
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| | 1995 | Dow-Jones hits record 4035.64 |
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| | 1996 | 22nd People's Choice Awards: Apollo 13, Tom Hanks wins |
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| | 1996 | New York City Mayor Guiliani visits Israel |
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| | 1998 | 4th Blockbuster Entertainment Awards |
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| | 2006 | Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter enters Mars orbit |
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