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Posted: Jan 9, 2014 - 6:07am
1349 – The Jewish population of Basel, Switzerland, believed by the residents to be the cause of the ongoing Black Death, is rounded up and incinerated.

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Posted: Jan 8, 2014 - 6:21am
1981 – A local farmer reports a UFO sighting in Trans-en-Provence, France, claimed to be "perhaps the most completely and carefully documented sighting of all time".

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Posted: Jan 8, 2014 - 6:20am
1964 – President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a "War on Poverty" in the United States.

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Posted: Jan 8, 2014 - 6:20am
1963 – Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is exhibited in the United States for the first time, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

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Posted: Jan 8, 2014 - 6:19am
1912 – The African National Congress is founded.

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Posted: Jan 8, 2014 - 6:19am
1877 – Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle against the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain, Montana Territory.

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Posted: Jan 8, 2014 - 6:19am
1867 – African American men are granted the right to vote in Washington, D.C.

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Posted: Jan 8, 2014 - 6:19am
1835 – The United States national debt is zero for the only time.

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Posted: Jan 8, 2014 - 6:18am
1697 – Last execution for blasphemy in Britain; of Thomas Aikenhead, student, at Edinburgh.

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Posted: Jan 7, 2014 - 6:04am
1985 – Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches Sakigake, Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union.

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Posted: Jan 7, 2014 - 6:02am
1927 – The first transatlantic telephone service is established – from New York, New York to London, United Kingdom.

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Posted: Jan 6, 2014 - 6:04am
1929 – Mother Teresa arrives in Calcutta, India to begin her work among India's poorest and sick people.

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Posted: Jan 6, 2014 - 6:03am
1870 – The inauguration of the Musikverein in Vienna, Austria.

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Posted: Jan 6, 2014 - 6:02am
1492 – Ferdinand and Isabella The Catholic Monarchs enter Granada, completing the Reconquista.

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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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