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1813 - Ludwig von Beethoven's 7th Symphony in A, premieres https://youtu.be/Z8IrkMU5qe8 1896 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Missing 3 Quarter 1941 - The United States entered World War II, when it declared war against Japan....

1732 - The Royal Opera House opens at Covent Garden, London. 1912 - Bust of Queen Nefertiti found in El-Amarna, Egypt 1926 - Gas refrigerator patented 1934 - Wiley Post discovers jet stream 1941 - Pearl Harbor was...

63 BC - Cicero reads the last of his Catiline Orations. 1492 - Christopher Columbus discovered  Haiti 1717 - Blackbeard ransacks the merchant sloop "Margaret" and keeps her captain, Henry Bostock, prisoner for 8 hours before...

1736 - Astronomer Anders Celsius takes measurements that confirm Newton's theory that the earth was an ellipsoid rather than the previously accepted sphere 1775 - First official US flag raised (Grand Union Flag) aboard naval...

1804 - Napoleon was crowned emperor of France at the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris 1867 - In a New York City theater, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the...

1.    Commas “,” are IMPORTANT 2.    They should’ve appointed someone good in grammar to have written this. . . 3.    Grammar Nazi- I totally get this 4.    LOL – Common mistake done by everyone 5.  ...

1783 - Jacques Charles & Nicolas Roberts make first untethered ascension with gas hydrogen balloon in Paris 1835 - Hans Christian Andersen publishes his 1st book of fairy tales 1878 - 1st White House telephone installed 1887...

1.    The Pig War : An argument over a slaughtered swine lead to a full-scale conflict between the United States and Great Britain. 2.    The Nika Riot: Conflict erupted in January 532, when Emperor Justinian refused to...

1630 - 16,000 inhabitants of Venice died this month of plague 1829 - First Welland Canal opens for a trial run, 5 years to the day from the ground breaking. 1866 - Work begins on 1st...

1775 - Sir James Jay invents invisible ink 1877 - US inventor Thomas Edison demonstrates his hand-cranked phonograph for the first time 1892 - A patent was issued to Almon Brown Strowger for the rotary dial....