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Posted: Jan 4, 2014 - 9:55am
islander wrote: Wow, a busy day in history. I still have a startac in a closet here somewhere - two batteries! Strangely, I too still have a StarTac. I loved that phone.

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Posted: Jan 3, 2014 - 6:29am
Wow, a busy day in history. I still have a startac in a closet here somewhere - two batteries!

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Posted: Jan 3, 2014 - 6:09am
2000 – The last original weekday Peanuts comic strip is published.

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Posted: Jan 3, 2014 - 6:09am
1999 – The Mars Polar Lander is launched.

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Posted: Jan 3, 2014 - 6:09am
1996 – The Motorola StarTAC, the first flip phone and one of the first mobile phones to gain widespread consumer adoption, goes on sale.

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Posted: Jan 3, 2014 - 6:08am
1993 – In Moscow, Russia, George Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).

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Posted: Jan 3, 2014 - 6:08am
1961 – The United States severs diplomatic relations with Cuba.

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Posted: Jan 3, 2014 - 6:07am
1933 – Minnie D. Craig becomes the first female elected as Speaker of the North Dakota House of Representatives, the first female to hold a Speaker position anywhere in the United States.

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Posted: Jan 3, 2014 - 6:07am
1925 – Benito Mussolini announces he is taking dictatorial powers over Italy.

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Posted: Jan 3, 2014 - 6:06am
1919 – At the Paris Peace Conference, Emir Faisal I of Iraq signs an agreement with Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann on the development of a Jewish homeland in Palestine and an Arab nation in a large part of the Middle East.

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Posted: Jan 3, 2014 - 6:06am
1888 – The refracting telescope at the Lick Observatory, measuring 91 cm in diameter, is used for the first time. It was the largest telescope in the world at the time.

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Posted: Jan 3, 2014 - 6:05am
1868 – Meiji Restoration in Japan: The Tokugawa shogunate is abolished; agents of Satsuma and ChÅshÅ« seize power.

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Posted: Jan 3, 2014 - 6:04am
1521 – Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther in the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem.

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Posted: Jan 2, 2014 - 6:09am
1974 – United States President Richard Nixon signs a bill lowering the maximum U.S. speed limit to 55 MPH in order to conserve gasoline during an OPEC embargo.

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Posted: Dec 31, 2013 - 6:06am
1946 – President Harry S. Truman officially proclaims the end of hostilities in World War II.

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Posted: Dec 31, 2013 - 6:05am
1879 – Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time, in Menlo Park, New Jersey.

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Posted: Dec 31, 2013 - 6:05am
1878 – Karl Benz, working in Mannheim, Germany, filed for a patent on his first reliable two-stroke gas engine, and he was granted the patent in 1879.

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Posted: Dec 31, 2013 - 6:04am
1759 – Arthur Guinness signs a 9,000 year lease at £45 per annum and starts brewing Guinness.

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