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First SMS text message is sent

1992

First human heart transplant

1967

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1912

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"A Streetcar Named Desire" opens on Broadway

1947

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Illinois becomes the 21st state

1818

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

1979

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Explosion kills 2,000 at pesticide plant

1984

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Forensics identify a child abductor—by his clothes

1989

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Bush and Gorbachev suggest Cold War is coming to an end

Last AMC Pacer rolls off assembly line

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George Washington arrives at the banks of the Delaware

1776

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Lawsuit prompts MLB to allow locker room access to female reporters

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Russian Bolshevik Party becomes the Communist Party

1918

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Supreme Court rules on Amistad slave ship mutiny case

1841

The Barbie doll makes its debut

1959

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Firebombing of Tokyo

1945

Vietnam War

Marines hand over control of I Corps region

1970

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Pancho Villa attacks Columbus, New Mexico

1916

Comedian George Burns dies at age 100

1996

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Japanese power plant leaks radioactive waste

1981

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

1997

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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

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President Eisenhower criticizes Senator Joseph McCarthy

1954

President Johnson acquitted in Senate impeachment trial

1868

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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

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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

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John Lennon and Yoko Ono meet

Woodstock ’99 begins

“The Sims” launches

James Brown performs at Rikers

Eartha Kitt speaks out against the Vietnam War

“A Raisin in the Sun” debuts on Broadway

“Serial” debuts, inaugurating the podcast boom

“The Prophet,” by Lebanese-American poet-philosopher Kahlil Gibran, is published

“Shuffle Along,” the first major African American hit musical, premieres on Broadway

Harlem Cultural Festival begins

Universal Studios fire

A lawmaker introduces the pun “May the Fourth be with you” on the floor of U.K. Parliament