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Friday, 21 November 2008 |
 Judas Maccabaeus restored the Temple in Jerusalem - Hanukkah (164 BC)- Thomas Edison announced his invention of the phonograph, a machine that could record sound (1877)
- Rebecca Felton became the first woman US Senator (1922)
- Ella Fitzgerald, 16, singing debut at the Apollo Theater (1934)
- First radio broadcast of King Biscuit, the longest running daily radio show and most famous live radio blues program (1941)
- Toy Story, the first computer-generated feature film, was released (1995)
- Florida's Supreme Court continued Al Gore's presidential recount (2000)
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Sunday, 13 January 2008 |
- The Church of England embraced the theory of evolution (1938)
- Wham-O Company produced the first Frisbee (1957)
- Johnny Cash recorded his landmark album At Folsom Prison live at the Folsom State Prison (1968)
- Douglas Wilder became the first elected Black governor in Virginia (1990)
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Saturday, 12 January 2008 |
- Rocky Mountain National Park established by congress (1915)
- Hattie Caraway (D-AR) became the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate (1932)
- First person was cryonically preserved for later resuscitation (1967)
- Led Zeppelin's debut album released (1969)
- All in the Family, the sit-com that first raised sexism and racism in American families debuted (1971)
- Mali votes for new constitution granting political freedom to parties (1992)
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Friday, 11 January 2008 |
- Popular Mechanics magazine was published for the first time (1902)
- Grand Canyon National Monument was established (1908)
- First use of insulin to treat diabetes in a human patient (1922)
- First recorded case of snowfall in Los Angeles, California (1949)
- Nigel Short, 14, became the youngest-ever International Chess Master (1980)
- 300,000 marched in favor of Lithuanian independence (1990)
- Illinois Governor Ryan said he would grant clemency to all death row inmates due to his belief that the death penalty could not be administered fairly and with certainty (2003)
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Thursday, 10 January 2008 |
- Thomas Paine published the immensely popular Common Sense pamphlet urging American colonists toward independence (1776)
- League of Nations held its first meeting and ratified the Treaty of Versailles ending World War I (1920)
- First UN General Assembly opened with 51 nations (1946)
- Jordan's King Hussein made a historic first visit to Tel Aviv at a ceremony to honor the 1994 Israeli-Jordanian peace talks (1996)
- Edward Brooke (R-MA) took his seat as the first black elected to the US Senate by popular vote (1967)
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