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| 1600 | - | Giordano Bruno - advocate of Copernican theory & plurality of worlds - is burned at the stake by the Inquisition in Rome |
| 1862 | - | Ft. Donelson captured by Gen. Grant |
| 1883 | - | Ladies Home Journal begins publication |
| 1914 | - | 1st airplane flight to LA from SF |
| 1918 | - | Lithuania declares independence from Germany |
| 1923 | - | Howard Carter finds the Pharoah Tutankhamun |
| 1937 | - | Nylon patented - WH Carothers |
| 1938 | - | US Federal Crop Insurance program authorized |
| 1945 | - | US forces land on Corregidor - complete conquest on March 3 |
| 1946 | - | 1st commercially designed helicopter tested - Bridgeport Ct |
| 1951 | - | SF City Hall dome fire |
| 1961 | - | 1st all solid propellant rocket put in orbit-Wallops Island - Va |
| 1964 | - | Beatles second appearance on Ed Sullivan |
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