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| 1520 | - | Martin Luther publicly burned papal edict demanding that he recant |
| 1817 | - | Mississippi becomes 20th state |
| 1830 | - | Poet Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst Mass |
| 1869 | - | Women granted right to vote in Wyoming Territory |
| 1896 | - | Alfred Nobel dies; Swedish Nobel Prize ceremony on this date |
| 1898 | - | Spanish-American War ends - US acquires Guam from Spain |
| 1901 | - | 1st Nobel Peace Prizes (to Jean Henri Dunant Fr‚d‚ric Passy) |
| 1906 | - | Pres Theodore Roosevelt (1st American) awarded Nobel Peace Prize |
| 1920 | - | President Woodrow Wilson receives Nobel Peace Prize |
| 1923 | - | Harold Gould (Rhoda |
| 1931 | - | Jane Addams (1st US woman) named co-recipient of Nobel Peace Prize |
| 1948 | - | UN Genl Assembly adopts Universal Declaration on Human Rights |
| 1950 | - | Ralph J. Bunche (1st black American) presented Nobel Peace Prize |
| 1958 | - | 1st domestic (NY-Miami) passenger jet flight-National 707 flew 111 |
| 1962 | - | Hunters Point (SF) jitney ends service after 50 years |
| 1963 | - | Zanzibar gains independence from Britain |
| 1966 | - | Israeli hmuel Yosef Agnon wins Nobel Prize for literature |
| 1967 | - | Singer Otis Redding dies in plane crash at 26 |
| 1975 | - | Andrei Sakharov\s wife Yelena Bonner accepts his Nobel Peace Prize |
| 1977 | - | Soyuz 26 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station |
| 1978 | - | Islanders ends 15 game undefeated streak (12-0-3) to Canadians |
| 1982 | - | Soyuz T-5 returns to Earth 211 days after take-off |
| 1984 | - | South African Bishop Desmond Tutu received his Nobel Peace Prize |
| 1986 | - | Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel accepts 1986 Nobel Peace Prize |
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