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1904 : Longacre Square in New York became Times Square.  |
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1903: Cuba leases Guantanamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity" |
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1903: Cuba leases Guantanamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity"
and hasn't that worked out well? a nice place for the yanks to torture people they don't like without dirtying their own back yard  |
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1902: May 20 - Cuba gains independence from the United States |
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1901:. . something reallly important happened in Australia. |
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1900: July 9 - Queen Victoria gives royal assent to Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act |
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1899: June 27 The paperclip was invented by English entrepreneur Roger Malcolm Taylor. |
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Britain leases Hong Kong from China for 99 years, H.G. Wells publishes "War of the Worlds" and radium is discovered. |
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1897: September 10 - In the Lattimer Massacre, a sheriff's posse killes more than nineteen unarmed immigrant miners in Pennsylvania.
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1896: 31 March Whitcomb Judson, of Chicago, Illinois, patents a 'hookless fastening' - the zipper. Without it, There's Something About Mary wouldn't have been quite the same...  |
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1895 - The lowest ever UK temperature of -27.2°C (measured as -17°F) was recorded at Braemar in Aberdeenshire. This record was equalled in 1982. |
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!894: March 12 - For the first time Coca-Cola is sold in bottles. ( what was it sold in before ?  |
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1893: Terrorist explosion kills 237 U.S. Marines in Beirut |
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