On This Day in History |
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1252 Pope Innocent IV issues the papal bull ad exstirpanda, which authorizes, but also limits, the torture of heretics in the Medieval Inquisition. |
1618 German astronomer Johannes Kepler discovers the third of his three planetary laws, the "harmonic law". |
 | Print from 1869 showing oxen-drawn covered wagons, men on horseback, oxen and a dog crossing the plains to California. |
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1841 First emigrant wagon train to make it to California leaves Independence, Missouri on a 1,730 mile journey over the Sierra Nevada. |
1869 National Woman Suffrage Association forms in New York, founded by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. |
1951 AT&T becomes the first US corporation to have a million stockholders after young car salesman Brady Denton purchases 7 shares worth $1,078. |
1988 The Soviet Union begins withdrawing its 115,000 troops from Afghanistan |
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If I agreed to your demand for cash payment it means that you would be living off immoral earnings, celebrated Madam tells the tax authority. |
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