Today in History |
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This Day in History | ||
1768 | The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica is published. | |
1778 | Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French physicist and chemist (d. 1850) | |
1865 | The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, banning slavery. | |
1897 | London becomes the world’s first city to host licensed taxicabs. | |
1923 | First presidential address broadcast on radio (Calvin Coolidge speaking to joint session of Congress). | |
1933 | U.S. federal judge John M. Woolsey rules that James Joyce‘s novel Ulysses is not obscene. | |
1957 | First US attempt to put a satellite into orbit blew up on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral. | |
1992 | The Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, India, is demolished, leading to widespread riots causing the death of over 1,500 people. |