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1637
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Anne Hutchinson, the first female religious leader in the American colonies, was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for heresy.
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1874
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The Republican party was first symbolized as an elephant in a cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly.
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1893
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The state of Colorado granted women the right to vote.
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1916
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Jeanette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to the U.S. Congress.
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1929
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The Museum of Modern Art in New York City opened to the public.
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1940
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The middle section of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington state collapsed during a windstorm.
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1944
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first person to win a fourth term as president.
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1973
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New Jersey became the first state to permit girls to play on Little League baseball teams.
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1991
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Actor Paul Reubens, a.k.a. Pee Wee Herman, plead no contest to charges of indecent exposure. Reubens had been arrested in Sarasota, FL, for exposing himself in a theatre.
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1999
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Tiger Woods became the first golfer since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win four straight tournaments.
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2000
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Hillary Rodham Clinton made history as the first president's wife to win public office. The state of New York elected her to the U.S. Senate.
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2001
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The new .BIZ domain extension was officially launched.
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2001
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After a 16-month stoppage the Concorde resumed flying commercially.
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