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 | Marconi with his telegraphic box of tricks |
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1901 Guglielmo Marconi sends the first transatlantic radio signal, from Poldhu in Cornwall to Newfoundland, Canada |
1925 Last Qajar Shah of Iran is deposed; Reza Shah Pahlavi takes over. |
1946 United Nations accepts six Manhattan blocks as a gift from John D. Rockefeller Jr. |
2000 US Supreme Court releases its 5-4 decision in Bush v. Gore, settling the recount dispute in Florida's 2000 presidential election in George W. Bush's favor and thus handing him the presidency over Al Gore. |
2015 COP21 climate change summit in Paris reaches a deal between 195 countries to limit the rise in the global average temperature to less than 2°C above pre-industrial levels. |
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Also John Jay and Dionne Warwick (84) |
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Whether she went to war out of love or duty, Phoebe Hessel, who died on this day, led a remarkable life on and off the battlefield. |
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