Actresses Lucille Ball (right) and Amanda Milligan in a classic episode of the television comedy 'I Love Lucy' entitled 'Job Switching,' which aired on May 30, 1952.

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Henry Ossawa Tanner and his painting "The Annunciation" (1898)

Declaration of Independence Copy Up for Sale371385 03: One of only 25 known surviving copies of the Declaration of Independence which were printed July 4, 1776 sits on display at Sotheby''s June 22, 2000 in New York City. The historic document will be sold in a one-day sale June 29th, 2000. It is estimated to be worth between $4,000,000 and $6,000,000.

A visitor looks at the work 'Campbell's Soup Cans' by artist Andy Warhol at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City

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German composer Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) composing the 'Missa Solemnis', February-April 1820. Oil painting by August Klober. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

Celia Cruz during rehearsal for the third annual Latin GRAMMY Awards ceremony at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California, 2002.

Head of a high priestess with inlaid eyes Mesopotamia, Akkadian, Ur (modern Tell el-Muqayyar), area EH, south of gipar Akkadian period (ca. 2334–2154 BC) Alabaster, shell, lapis lazuli, and bitumen; 9.5 × 8 × 8.5 cm. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, USA, excavated 1926; B16228

Portrait of Machito (at mic, right), with his Afro-Cuban mambo orchestra, including: José Mangual (bongos), Carlos Vidal Bolado (conga), Mario Bauzá (far left trumpeter), Ubaldo Nieto (timbales) and Graciella Grillo (front left), at the Glen Island Casino, New Rochelle, New York, c. July 1947

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Inventions &amp; Science

First SMS text message is sent

1992

First human heart transplant

1967

World War I

Armistice signed in First Balkan War

1912

Art, Literature and Film History

"A Streetcar Named Desire" opens on Broadway

1947

19th Century

Illinois becomes the 21st state

1818

Eleven people killed in a stampede outside Who concert in Cincinnati, Ohio

1979

1980s

Explosion kills 2,000 at pesticide plant

1984

Crime

Forensics identify a child abductor—by his clothes

1989

Cold War

Bush and Gorbachev suggest Cold War is coming to an end

Last AMC Pacer rolls off assembly line

American Revolution

George Washington arrives at the banks of the Delaware

1776

Sports

Lawsuit prompts MLB to allow locker room access to female reporters

European History

Russian Bolshevik Party becomes the Communist Party

1918

Slavery

Supreme Court rules on Amistad slave ship mutiny case

1841

The Barbie doll makes its debut

1959

World War II

Firebombing of Tokyo

1945

Vietnam War

Marines hand over control of I Corps region

1970

Early 20th Century U.S.

Pancho Villa attacks Columbus, New Mexico

1916

Comedian George Burns dies at age 100

1996

Natural Disasters &amp; Environment

Japanese power plant leaks radioactive waste

1981

Rapper Notorious B.I.G. is killed in Los Angeles

1997

Civil War

U.S.S. Monitor battles C.S.S. Virginia

1862

First Adopt-a-Highway sign goes up

1985

Spanish siege of Pensacola begins

1781

Germany declares war on Portugal

U.S. Presidents

President Eisenhower criticizes Senator Joseph McCarthy

1954

President Johnson acquitted in Senate impeachment trial

1868

Native American History

Pequot massacres begin

1637

Czar Nicholas II crowned

1896

Last day of Model T production at Ford

1927

"Dracula" goes on sale in London

1897

President Coolidge signs Immigration Act of 1924

1924

John Wayne is born

1907

The British Invasion has an odd beginning with clarinetist Acker Bilk

1962

1990s

Plane crashes in Thai jungle

1991

United States charges Soviets with espionage

1960

One of the last Confederate generals surrenders

1865

Britain’s Operation Dynamo gets underway as President Roosevelt makes a radio appeal for the Red Cross

1940

Art history encompasses many movements and periods, including prehistoric and ancient art, Renaissance art, impressionist art, modern art and folk art, as well as music and film.

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