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What Else Happened Today?
General Interest
1820 Congress passes the Missouri Compromise
1931 “The Star Spangled Banner” becomes official
Automotive
1949 Tucker Corporation Fails
1985 Jaquar executive and founder retires
Crime
1873 Congress bans sending obscene materials
through the mail
Entertainment
1915 Birth of a Nation opens in New York
Lead Story
1991 Police brutality caught on video
Literary
1926 James Merrill is born
Old West
1879 United States Geological Survey created
Presidential
1877 Rutherford B. Hayes is inaugurated in a
private ceremony
World War II
1945 Finland declares war on Germany
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MORE GENERAL INTEREST
AMER. REVOLUTION
1776 Silas Deane embarks on secret mission to
France
AUTOMOTIVE
1985 Lyons and Jaguars and cars, oh my!
CIVIL WAR
1865 Freedman's Bureau created
COLD WAR
1952 Supreme Court rules on communist teachers
CRIME
1873 Congress bans sending obscene materials
through the mail
ENTERTAINMENT
1915 Birth of a Nation opens in New York
LEAD STORY
1991 POLICE BRUTALITY CAUGHT ON VIDEO:
LITERARY
1926 James Merrill is born
OLD WEST
1879 United States Geological Survey created
PRESIDENTIAL
1877 Rutherford B. Hayes is inaugurated in a
private ceremony
VIETNAM WAR
1971 U.S. 5th Special Forces Group withdraws
WALL STREET
1873 William Green, labor leader, is born
WORLD WAR I
1918 Treaty of Brest-Litovsk concluded
WORLD WAR II
1945 Finland declares war on Germany
1820 Congress passes the Missouri
Compromise
1863 Congress passes Civil War
conscription act
1918 Russia makes a separate peace
1931 "The Star-Spangled Banner" becomes
official