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  1. Today in History: immigrant receiving facility at Ellis Island opens doors, 1892

  2. 28 Dec 2018

    in 1886, Josephine Cochrane received a patent for the first mechanical dishwasher, which she developed and sold herself after her husband died, leaving her with much debt. The company she founded became KitchenAid, part of Whirlpool.

  3. 27 Dec 2018

    , 27 Dec 1935, Regina Jonas was ordained as a rabbi in Berlin, the first known ordination of a woman. After her arrest in 1942, she ministered in a ghetto until she was transported to Auschwitz in 1944. She was probably killed on arrival.

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    5 Jan 1589: d. Catherine de Medici, Q of France, who the kept Valois monarchy in place during the Wars of Religion

  5. Jan 3

    in 2014: Theo Walcott infuriates Spurs fans by mimicking the 2-0 scoreline with his fingers.

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    in 1969, Venera 5 was launched towards Venus. It arrived in May and descended into the atmosphere and operated for 53 minutes.

  7. 2 hours ago

    in 1066: the death of Edward the Confessor, king of England. As he and his wife Edith were childless, this sparked a succession crisis which eventually led to the Norman conquest of England.

  8. 1871: 30 Fenian prisoners were released by British in a general amnesty on condition they exile themselves to the country of their choice & not return until sentences had expired. 5 cellmates went to US on the ship 'Cuba'-became known as The Cuba Five📷. Greeted as heroes!

  9. Jan 3

    1883 Clement Attlee born in Putney. After serving in Gallipoli he became Limehouse MP & Labour Leader in 1935 Formed first Majority Labour Government & introduced modern welfare state & NHS Remains the longest serving leader (20 years) & largest no of votes (13.9m in 1951)

  10. Jan 2

    "People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do." "The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom." ― Isaac Asimov was born in 1920

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    in 1985...Ron Atkinson's beat 3-0 in the at Old Trafford. Goals from Gordon Strachan, Gordon McQueen and Frank Stapleton set United on the way to winning the Cup for the sixth time in the club's history

  12. Jan 2

    Pioneering filmmaker Dziga Vertov (né David Kaufman) was born on 2nd January 1896 in what is now Poland. He is best know for his experimental 1929 documentary 'Man with a Movie Camera' which captured the acceleration of life in the USSR during the period of Lenin's NEP.

  13. 1/2/1920 Isaac Asimov, atheist & humanist, was born. He was a prolific sci-fi author best known the "Foundation", "Galactic Empire", & "Robot" book series. "The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."-I.A.

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    in 1976 the IRA murdered John McConville, 20. 1 of 10 Protestants murdered in the Kingsmill Massacre. Workmen were returning home from a textile factory on a dark, wet evening along a rural road. Mr McConville was due to go to Scotland to train as a missionary

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  15. 18 hours ago

    in 1781, Charles Messier discovered the Globular Cluster M80.

  16. in 1809, Louis Braille was born in the town of Coupvray, near Paris. He was an educator and the inventor of the reading and writing system used by blind and visually impaired people around the world.

  17. 27 minutes ago

    in 1976 the IRA murdered Clifford Evans, 30. Married RUCR shot when police car stopped at junction on Castledawson - Toomebridge Rd. All 3 officers hit & Constable Evans dead on arrival at hospital. 3 yrs earlier murderer burst into his home & fired but missed

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    5/1/1955 -The Canadian Naval Air Service (CANAS) receives four T-33 Jet Trainers. Assigned to Training Sqn VT-40 at HMCS SHEARWATER, used to transition RCN pilots from Sea Fury's to the Banshee's. The T-33 was the first Jet powered aircraft operated by the RCN.

  19. Jan 3

    in 1920, the formerly announce a deal to acquire Babe Ruth. The rest is history.

  20. 20 hours ago

    shout out to Josiah , surely the most underrated man in British history 💕 a superb artisan, abolitionist, Lunar Society member & probably the nation's kindest philanthropist. Thanks for paying off Coleridge's (many) opium debts so he could publish his last works!

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