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| 1809 | - | Wearing masks at balls forbidden in Boston |
| 1817 | - | 1st coffee planted in Hawaii |
| 1853 | - | Gadsden Purchase 45 000 sq miles by Gila River from Mexico for $10 million. Area is now southern Arizona & New Mexico |
| 1903 | - | 602 die as flames swept through Iroquois Theater in Chicago |
| 1916 | - | Grigori Rasputin Russian monk advisor to tsarina is assassinated |
| 1922 | - | USSR organized as a federation |
| 1924 | - | Edwin Hubble announces existence of other Milky Way systems |
| 1935 | - | Italian bombers destroyed Swedish Red Cross unit in Ethiopia |
| 1938 | - | Electronic television system patented VK Zworykin |
| 1971 | - | Long Island NHL franchise purchased (NY Islanders) |
| 1972 | - | Pres Nixon halts bombing of North Vietnam & announces peace talks |
| 1975 | - | Democratic Republic of Madagascar founded |
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