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In 1985, “Live Aid,” an international rock concert in London, Philadelphia, Moscow and Sydney, took place to raise money for Africa’s starving…
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In 1859, Big Ben, the great bell inside the famous London clock tower, chimed for the first time.
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In 1976, the United States Military Academy at West Point included female cadets for the first time as 119 women joined the Class of 1980.
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On July 6, 1944, an estimated 168 people died in a fire that broke out during a performance in the main tent of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum …
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In 2011, a jury in Orlando found Casey Anthony not guilty of murder, manslaughter and child abuse in the 2008 disappearance and death of her 2…
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In 1863, the three-day Civil War Battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania ended in a major victory for the North as Confederate troops failed to b…
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In 2022, Ketanji Brown Jackson was sworn in to the Supreme Court, becoming the first Black woman on the nation’s highest court.
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In 2012, Katie Holmes filed for divorce from Tom Cruise after five years of marriage.
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In 1991, Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, the first Black jurist to sit on the nation’s highest court, announced his retirement.
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In 1997, the first Harry Potter novel was published in the United Kingdom.
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