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Wednesday, 17 March 2010 |
 St. Patrick's Day was celebrated in New York City for the first time at the Crown and Thistle Tavern (1756)- The rubber band was invented (1845)
- The Kingdom of Italy was founded (1861)
- A showing of 71 Vincent van Gogh paintings in Paris, 11 years after his death, created a sensation (1901)
- The Camp Fire Girls was founded (1910)
- The National Gallery of Art opened in Washington, D.C. (1941)
- Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, and the United Kingdom signed the Treaty of Brussels, a precursor to the NATO Agreement (1948)
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Tuesday, 16 March 2010 |
 Joseph Lister first published his discovery of antiseptic surgery (1867)- The first FA Cup was played, the oldest football competition in the world, in London (1872)
- Robert Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket (1926)
- Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia visited London in friendship, the first Communist leader to do so (1953)
- The first space docking: Gemini 8 with Agena (1966)
- Russian space station Mir welcomed the first American aboard (1995)
- The largest coordinated worldwide peace vigil (2003)
- The UN General Assembly overwhelmingly voted to establish the UN Human Rights Council (2006)
- Iraq's new parliament met briefly for the first time to take the oath (2006)
And, on this day in 1621, Samoset visited the settlers of Plymouth Colony and greeted them saying, "Welcome, Englishmen! My name is Samoset." He was the first Native American... (click to read more)
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Friday, 15 January 2010 |
 The British Museum opened (1759)- Robert Morris argued before Congress for a U.S. decimal coinage (1782)
- Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, first for Black women was established (1908)
- First Super Bowl: Green Bay Packers and Kansas City Chiefs, 35-10 (1967)
- US President Nixon ceases offensive actions in Vietnam (1973)
- Wikipedia, a free Wiki content encyclopedia, launched on the Web (2001)
- US Airways Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, made an emergency landing into the Hudson River shortly after takeoff from LaGuardia Airport in New York City, and the crew evacuated all passengers without casualty (2009)
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Saturday, 25 April 2009 |
 Libya amended its constitution to allow for female participation in elections (1963)- Physicists announced the first evidence of a top quark subatomic particle (1994)
- Under international pressure, Syria withdrew the last of its 14,000 troops from Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country (2005)
On this day, in the year 121, Marcus Aurelius was born. Aurelius was Emperor of Rome (161-180) but known as much for his philosophical writing as for his reign. He didn't believe a society should be divided by class or engage in slavery. He believed all men were equal and that the government's purpose was to serve the people. He wrote, "Men exist for the sake of one another." He was a faithful husband and father. He studied the Stoic Greek philosophers who believed in detaching yourself from everything that is outside of your power to control. He compiled Meditations as a saintly handbook for how to live your life. It is also revered as a literary monument to a government of service and duty.
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. - Marcus Aurelius (Books by the author )
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