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Posted: Feb 21, 2014 - 7:54am
1958 – The peace symbol, commissioned by Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in protest against the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, is designed and completed by Gerald Holtom.

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Posted: Feb 21, 2014 - 7:54am
1952 – The British government, under Winston Churchill, abolishes identity cards in the UK to "set the people free".

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Posted: Feb 21, 2014 - 7:54am
1947 – In New York City, Edwin Land demonstrates the first "instant camera", the Polaroid Land Camera, to a meeting of the Optical Society of America.

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Posted: Feb 21, 2014 - 7:53am
1918 – The last Carolina Parakeet dies in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo.

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Posted: Feb 21, 2014 - 7:52am
1848 – Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto.

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Posted: Feb 21, 2014 - 7:52am
1828 – Initial issue of the Cherokee Phoenix is the first periodical to use the Cherokee syllabary invented by Sequoyah.

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Posted: Feb 21, 2014 - 7:51am
1804 – The first self-propelling steam locomotive makes its outing at the Pen-y-Darren Ironworks in Wales.

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Posted: Feb 20, 2014 - 5:28am
2013 – The smallest Extrasolar planet, Kepler-37b is discovered.

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Posted: Feb 20, 2014 - 5:26am
1965 – Ranger 8 crashes into the moon after a successful mission of photographing possible landing sites for the Apollo program astronauts.

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Posted: Feb 20, 2014 - 5:26am
1962 – Mercury program: While aboard Friendship 7, John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the earth, making three orbits in 4 hours, 55 minutes.

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Posted: Feb 20, 2014 - 5:25am
1935 – Caroline Mikkelsen becomes the first woman to set foot in Antarctica.

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Posted: Feb 20, 2014 - 5:24am
1877 – Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake receives its première performance at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.

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Posted: Feb 20, 2014 - 5:23am
1872 – In New York City the Metropolitan Museum of Art opens.

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Posted: Feb 20, 2014 - 5:22am
1792 – The Postal Service Act, establishing the United States Post Office Department, is signed by President George Washington.

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Posted: Feb 18, 2014 - 6:06am
1972 – The California Supreme Court in the case of People v. Anderson, (6 Cal.3d 628) invalidates the state's death penalty and commutes the sentences of all death row inmates to life imprisonment.

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Posted: Feb 18, 2014 - 6:06am
1970 – The Chicago Seven are found not guilty of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

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Posted: Feb 18, 2014 - 6:05am
1954 – The first Church of Scientology is established in Los Angeles, California.

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