On This Day in History |
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1787 Delegates gather in Philadelphia to draw up the Constitution of the United States. |
1796 English country doctor Edward Jenner administers his revolutionary cowpox-based vaccine for smallpox, in Berkeley, Gloucestershire. |
1804 Meriwether Lewis and William Clark's expedition sets out from St. Louis for the Pacific Coast, commissioned by Thomas Jefferson |
 | David Ben-Gurion, who became Israel's first prime minister shortly after, declares independence beneath a picture of Theodor Herzl |
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1948 David Ben-Gurion declares Israel independent from British administration, Golda Meir one of the signatories. |
1955 Warsaw Pact is signed by the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania. |
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Also Cate Blanchett (55) and Rob Gronkowski (35). |
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Also Henry IV of France, Louis XIII and B.B. King. |
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Pope John XII who died – some say he was murdered – on this day lived a life of sin, corruption and murder. But is his reputation as the worst pope deserved? |
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