1693 1st women’s magazine “Ladies’ Mercury” published in London, England.
1900 In London, the Trades Union Congress and the Independent Labour Party (formed in 1893) meet, results in a Labour Representative Committee and eventually the modern Labour Party in 1906
1940 Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14 (radiocarbon dating) at the University of California Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley, California.
1950 General Chiang Kai-shek elected president of Nationalist China.
1957 Mao’s famous speech to the Supreme State Conference “On Correct Handling of Contradictions Among People” expounding Maoist ideals.
2012 Wikileaks begins disclosing 5 million emails from private intelligence company Stratfor.
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1968 CBS news anchor Walter Cronkite delivers a scathing editorial on America’s chances of winning the Vietnam War.
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1814 Ludwig van Beethoven’s 8th Symphony in F premieres
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1827 1st Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans
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2014 Chaos erupts after the Swedish Public Employment Service mistakenly invites 61,000 people to a job interview in Stockholm
