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U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law that places the words "under God" into the United States Pledge of Alle...
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Trade unions are legalised in Canada.
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UNIVAC I is dedicated by the U.S. Census Bureau.
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Beginning of the French colonization of Algeria: 34,000 French soldiers begin their invasion of Algiers, landing 27 kilometers we...
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Disneyland Monorail System, the first daily operating monorail system in the Western Hemisphere, opens to the public in Anaheim, ...
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The Raid on the Medway by the Dutch fleet in the Second Anglo-Dutch War ends. It had lasted for five days and resulted in the wor...
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Near-Earth asteroid 2002 MN misses the Earth by 75,000 miles (121,000 km), about one-third of the distance between the Earth...
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American Civil War: Second Battle of Winchester
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The Vatican announces the abolition of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum ("index of prohibited books"), which was originally instit...
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