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March 16, 2017

In 1792, King Gustav III of Sweden was shot; he died 13 days later. In 1802, the Army Corps of Engineers was founded. In 1870, the first version of Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet received its...

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March 8, 2017

In 1817, the New York Stock Exchange was founded. In 1910, Raymonde de Laroche became the first woman to receive an aviator's license. In 1921, Spanish Prime Minister Eduardo Dato Iradier was...

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March 7, 2017

In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for an invention he called a "telephone." In 1965, a group of more than 600 civil rights marchers were brutally attacked by state and local police...

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March 1, 2017

In 1565, the city of Rio de Janeiro was founded. In 1692, three women were brought before local magistrates to begin what later became known as the Salem Witch Trials. In 1781, the Continental...

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February 17, 2017

In 1621, Myles Standish was appointed first commander of the Plymouth Colony. In 1801, an electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr was resolved when Jefferson was elected president...

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February 15, 2017

In 1764, the city of St. Louis was established in Spanish Louisiana (now Missouri). In 1879, President Rutherford B. Hayes signed a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the U.S....

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February 8, 2017

In 1587, Mary, Queen of Scots, was executed on suspicion of being involved in a plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I. In 1693, the College of William and Mary was granted a charter in Williamsburg,...

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