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1420 – Which city is officially designated the capital of the Ming dynasty ?
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1492 – Christopher Columbus lands on which island on his first voyage to the New World ?
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1538 – The Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino is founded in what is now which country ?
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1664 – The Duke of York and Albany's Maritime Regiment of Foot is established. It was later to be known as which part of the British military ?
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1726 – The novel Gulliver's Travels is published. Who wrote the novel ?
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1834 – The Pinjarra massacre occurs in the Swan River Colony. An estimated 30 Noongar people are killed by British colonists in which country ?
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1886 – US president Grover Cleveland dedicates which landmark ?
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1893 – Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, "Pathétique" receives its première performance how long before the composer's death ?
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1919 – The U.S. Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Wilson's veto, paving the way for what to begin the following January ?
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1942 – The Alaska Highway first connects Alaska to the North American railway network at which city in Canada ?
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1949 – An Air France Lockheed Constellation crashes in which island group, killing all 48 people on board ?
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1958 – Which Pope is elected ?
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1990 – Which country holds its only free election under Soviet rule ?
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2007 – Cristina Fernández de Kirchner becomes the first directly elected female President of which country ?
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Today in the US is marked as what ?