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*[[1881]] - The [[feminist]] newspaper ''[[La Citoyenne]]'' is first published in [[Paris]] by activist [[Hubertine Auclert]]. *[[1881]] - The [[feminist]] newspaper ''[[La Citoyenne]]'' is first published in [[Paris]] by activist [[Hubertine Auclert]].
*[[1894]] - [[Auguste and Louis Lumière]] patent the ''[[Cinematographe]]'', a combination [[movie camera]] and [[Movie projector|projector]]. *[[1894]] - [[Auguste and Louis Lumière]] patent the ''[[Cinematographe]]'', a combination [[movie camera]] and [[Movie projector|projector]].
-*[[1899]] - [[Tallahassee, Florida]] records its all time coldest temperature of -2 degrees Fahrenheit. 
*[[1914]] - [[Copyright]]: In [[New York City]] the [[ASCAP]] (for American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) is established to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members. *[[1914]] - [[Copyright]]: In [[New York City]] the [[ASCAP]] (for American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) is established to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members.
*[[1920]] - The [[Negro National League (the first)|Negro National League]] is formed. *[[1920]] - The [[Negro National League (the first)|Negro National League]] is formed.
-*[[1934]] - The [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[steamship]] ''[[Cheliuskin (ship)|Cheliuskin]]'' sinks in the [[Arctic Ocean]]. 
-*[[1935]] - A jury in [[Flemington, New Jersey]] finds [[Bruno Hauptmann]] guilty of the [[1932]] [[kidnapping]] and [[murder]] of the [[Lindbergh kidnapping|Lindbergh baby]], the son of [[Charles Lindbergh]]. 
-*[[1945]] - [[World War II]]: [[Red Army]] forces take [[Budapest]], [[Hungary]] from [[Wehrmacht]] forces.  
-* 1945 - [[World War II]]: The [[Royal Air Force]] bombers were dispatched to [[Dresden]], [[Germany]] to raid the city by massive aerial bombardment (see [[Bombing of Dresden in World War II]]). 
-*[[1955]] - [[Israel]] obtains 4 of the 7 [[Dead Sea scrolls]]. 
-*[[1960]] - [[Nuclear testing]]: [[France]] tests its first [[atomic bomb]].  
-*[[1971]] - [[Vietnam War]]: Backed by [[United States|American]] air and artillery support, [[South Vietnam]]ese troops invade [[Laos]]. 
-*[[1974]] - [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]], winner of the [[Nobel Prize in literature]] in [[1970]], is exiled from the [[Soviet Union]]. 
-*[[1975]] - A fire erupts in the [[World Trade Center]] in [[New York City]], [[New York]].  
-*[[1978]] - [[Hilton bombing]]: a [[bomb]] explodes in a refuse truck outside the [[Hilton Hotel]] in [[Sydney]], [[Australia]], killing two refuse collectors and a policeman. 
-*[[1979]] - The intense [[February 13, 1979 Windstorm]] strikes western [[Washington]] and sinks a 1/2-mile-long section of the [[Hood Canal Bridge]]. 
-*[[1981]] - A series of [[Louisville sewer explosions|sewer explosions]] destroys more than two miles of streets in [[Louisville, Kentucky]].  
-*[[1984]] - [[Konstantin Chernenko]] succeeds the late [[Yuri Andropov]] as general secretary of the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]]. 
-*[[1990]] - [[German reunification]]: An agreement is reached for a two-stage plan to reunite [[Germany]].  
-*[[1991]] - [[Gulf War]]: Two laser-guided "[[smart bomb]]s" destroy a bunker in [[Baghdad]]. The bunker was being used as a military communications outpost and unknown to allied forces, as a shelter for [[Iraq]]i civilians. 
-* 1997 - The [[Dow Jones Industrial Average]] closes above 7,000 for the [[Closing milestones of the Dow Jones Industrial Average|first time]] closing at 7,022.44. 
-*[[2000]] - The last original "[[Peanuts]]" [[comic strip]] appears in [[newspaper]]s one day after [[Charles M. Schulz]] dies.  
-*[[2001]] - An [[earthquake]] measuring 6.6 on the [[Richter Scale]] hits [[El Salvador]], killing at least 400.  
-*[[2004]] - The [[Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics]] discovers the universe's largest known [[diamond]], [[white dwarf]] [[star]] ''[[BPM 37093]]''. 
-*[[2007]] - [[Republic of China|Taiwan]] opposition leader [[Ma Ying-jeou]] resigned as the chairman of the [[Kuomintang]] party after being indicted by the [[Taiwan High Prosecutors Office]] on charges of embezzlement during his tenure as the mayor of [[Taipei]]; Ma also announced his candidacy for the [[Republic of China presidential election, 2008|2008 presidential election]]. 
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