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30 years ago today, Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, the 11th Panchen Lama, was kidnapped and forcibly disappeared by the Chinese government at age six. (en.wikipedia.org)
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35 years ago today, Jim Henson, an American puppeteer, animator, actor, and filmmaker, died. He achieved worldwide notability as the creator of the Muppets. (en.wikipedia.org)
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85 years ago today, the McDonald's brothers opened their first McDonald's restaurant in San Bernardino, California. Originally, a carhop drive-in system was used to serve customers. (en.wikipedia.org)
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85 years ago today, nylon stockings were first shipped to selected stores in the national market after a limited number of 4,000 pairs of stockings were released for sale in Delaware. (en.wikipedia.org)
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125 years ago today, the 1900 Summer Olympics opened. Women took part in the games for the first time, with sailor Hélène de Pourtalès becoming the first female Olympic champion. (en.wikipedia.org)
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70 years ago today, the Warsaw Pact, a collective defense treaty, was signed in Warsaw, Poland, between the Soviet Union and seven other Eastern Bloc socialist republics in Central and Eastern Europe. (en.wikipedia.org)
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75 years ago today, Stevie Wonder, an American-Ghanaian singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer, was born. He is regarded as one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. (en.wikipedia.org)
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80 years ago today, Julius Fromm, a Polish-German entrepreneur, chemist, and one of the inventors of the rubber condom, died. He also made several other elastomeric products such as rubber gloves. (en.wikipedia.org)
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65 years ago today, an eight-man team captured Adolf Eichmann, one of the major organisers of the Holocaust, near his home on Garibaldi Street in San Fernando, Buenos Aires. (en.wikipedia.org)
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150 years ago today was Isaac C. Parker's first session sitting as the district judge in the Western District of Arkansas. He was also known as "Hanging Judge" Parker, sentencing 160 people to death. (en.wikipedia.org)
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70 years ago today, Kermit the Frog made his debut on puppeteer Jim Henson’s “Sam and Friends” show on WRC-TV in Washington, D.C. (en.wikipedia.org)
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75 years ago today, a proposal to place French and West German production of coal and steel under a single authority that later became the ECSC was made by the French foreign minister, Robert Schuman. (en.wikipedia.org)
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80 years ago today, Keith Jarrett, an American pianist and composer, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)
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325 years ago today, Gerard van Swieten, a Dutch physician, was born. He viewed the vampire myth as a "barbarism of ignorance" and his aim was to eradicate it. (en.wikipedia.org)
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80 years ago today, the first German Instrument of Surrender was signed in Reims at 02:41 Central European Time (CET). It was not recognized by the Soviet Union. (www.archives.gov)
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40 years ago today, Ronald Reagan made a ceremonial visit to a German military cemetery in West Germany. 49 of the 2,000 German soldiers buried at the site had been members of the Waffen-SS. (en.wikipedia.org)
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25 years ago today, the computer worm ILOVEYOU originated in the Pandacan neighborhood of Manila in the Philippines, thereafter moving westward through corporate email systems. (en.wikipedia.org)
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45 years ago today, Josip Broz Tito, President of Yugoslavia and leader of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, died following a prolonged illness. (en.wikipedia.org)
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25 years ago today, the first documented placement of a GPS-located cache took place by Dave Ulmer in Beavercreek, Oregon. The location was posted on the Usenet newsgroup sci.geo.satellite-nav. (en.wikipedia.org)
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70 years ago today, Donatella Versace, an Italian fashion designer, businesswoman, socialite, and model, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)
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80 years ago today, the commander of the Berlin Defence Area, General Helmuth Weidling, surrendered to Lieutenant-General Vasily Chuikov, commander of the Soviet 8th Guards Army. (en.wikipedia.org)
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135 years ago today, on the anniversary of the protests related to the Haymarket Affair in Chicago, demonstrations took place in the United States and most countries in Europe. (en.wikipedia.org)
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995 years ago today, Mahmud of Ghazni, Sultan of the Ghaznavid Empire, died. He ruled from 998 to 1030. (en.wikipedia.org)
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30 years ago today, four Greenpeace activists first occupied Brent Spar, a North Sea oil storage and tanker. (en.wikipedia.org)
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