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1942 â World War II: During the Manhattan Project, a team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first artificial self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.

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Posted: Dec 2, 2023 - 7:40am
1804 â At Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself Emperor of the French.

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1766 â Swedish parliament approves the Swedish Freedom of the Press Act and implements it as a ground law, thus being first in the world with freedom of speech.

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Posted: Dec 1, 2023 - 2:50am
On this day in history, December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a White passenger

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Posted: Nov 30, 2023 - 7:57am
1999 â Exxon and Mobil sign a US$73.7 billion agreement to merge, thus creating ExxonMobil, the world's largest company.

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Posted: Nov 30, 2023 - 7:56am
1947 â Civil War in Mandatory Palestine begins, leading up to the creation of the State of Israel and the 1948 ArabâIsraeli War.

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Posted: Nov 30, 2023 - 5:50am
1786 â The Grand Duchy of Tuscany, under Pietro Leopoldo I, becomes the first modern state to abolish the death penalty (later commemorated as Cities for Life Day).

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Posted: Nov 29, 2023 - 5:57am
1972 â Atari releases Pong, the first commercially successful video game.

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Posted: Nov 29, 2023 - 5:57am
1963 â "I Want to Hold Your Hand", recorded on October 17, 1963, is released by the Beatles in the United Kingdom.

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Posted: Nov 28, 2023 - 7:14am
1967 â The first pulsar (PSR B1919+21, in the constellation of Vulpecula) is discovered by two astronomers Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Antony Hewish.

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Posted: Nov 28, 2023 - 7:13am
1925 â The Grand Ole Opry begins broadcasting in Nashville, Tennessee, as the WSM Barn Dance.

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Posted: Nov 27, 2023 - 5:54am
1971 â The Soviet space program's Mars 2 orbiter releases a descent module. It malfunctions and crashes, but it is the first man-made object to reach the surface of Mars.

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Posted: Nov 27, 2023 - 5:51am
1896 â Also sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss is first performed.

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1835 â James Pratt and John Smith are hanged in London; they are the last two to be executed for sodomy in England.

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Posted: Nov 26, 2023 - 6:55am
2021 â COVID-19 pandemic: The World Health Organization identifies the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant.

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2018 â The robotic probe Insight lands on Elysium Planitia, Mars.

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2011 â The Mars Science Laboratory launches to Mars with the Curiosity Rover.

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2004 â The last PoÊ»ouli (Black-faced honeycreeper) dies of avian malaria in the Maui Bird Conservation Center in Olinda, Hawaii, before it could breed, making the species in all probability extinct.

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On this day in history, December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a White passenger