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Post by peach on Jan 13, 2009 0:56:56 GMT
22 February, 1979 St Lucia gains independence from Britain
6 December
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Post by GreenEyesToo on Jan 13, 2009 22:15:19 GMT
1768 - the first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica was published.
11 May
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Post by peach on Jan 15, 2009 3:00:05 GMT
11 May, 1949 1st Polaroid camera sold $89.95 (NYC)
3 November
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Post by dirtygirldiva on Jan 15, 2009 17:23:55 GMT
1793 - French playwright, journalist and feminist Olympe de Gouges is guillotined.
July 7
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Post by GreenEyesToo on Jan 15, 2009 19:54:40 GMT
1947 - the date of the Roswell UFO incident
16 January
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Post by dirtygirldiva on Jan 15, 2009 19:56:07 GMT
1412 - The Medici family is appointed official banker of the Papacy.
May 26
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Post by GreenEyesToo on Jan 15, 2009 20:32:38 GMT
In 1647, Alse Young was the first person executed as a witch in the American colonies, hanged in Hartford, Connecticut.
1 September
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Post by dirtygirldiva on Jan 15, 2009 20:35:14 GMT
1985 - A joint American-French expedition locates the wreck of the RMS Titanic.
March 18
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Post by GreenEyesToo on Jan 15, 2009 22:26:17 GMT
In 1834, six farm labourers known as the Tolpuddle Martyrs, from Dorset in England, were sentenced to be transported to Australia for forming a trade union.
17 March
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Post by peach on Jan 16, 2009 2:16:32 GMT
17 March, 1836 Texas abolishes slavery.
29 April
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Post by dirtygirldiva on Jan 16, 2009 17:51:04 GMT
2004 - Oldsmobile builds its final car ending 107 years of production.
July 9
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Post by GreenEyesToo on Jan 16, 2009 21:18:38 GMT
In 1540, Henry VIII annulled his marriage to his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves.
3 December
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Post by peach on Jan 17, 2009 2:44:28 GMT
3 December, 1947 Tennessee Williams play "A Streetcar Named Desire" premieres in New York NY
15 April
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Post by GreenEyesToo on Jan 17, 2009 13:52:21 GMT
In 1802, William Wordsworth and his sister saw the "long belt" of daffodils, that inspired the poem "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud."
31 October
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Post by peach on Jan 19, 2009 1:04:19 GMT
31 October, 1517 Luther posts 95 theses on Wittenberg church-Protestant Reformation.
2 January
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