1942 “The battle of Los Angeles.” 

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303 1st official Roman edict for persecution of Christians issued by Emperor Diocletian

1510 Pope Julius II excommunicates the republic of Venice

803 US Supreme Court 1st rules a law unconstitutional (Marbury v Madison)

1821 Agustín de Iturbide and Vicente Guerrero agree to the Plan of Iguala, stating that Mexico will become a constitutional monarchy, Roman Catholicism the official religion and that Peninsulares and Creoles will enjoy equal political and social rights.  Left: 1st Emperor of Mexico   Agustín de Iturbide.  Right: Revolutionary General & President of Mexico:  Viceno Guerrero  

• 1839 Steam shovel patented by William Otis, Philadelphia

• 1863 Arizona Territory created

1868 US House of Representatives vote 126 to 47 to impeach President Andrew Johnson.  Was Johnson convicted in the Senate?

• 1881 De Lesseps’ Company begins work on Panama Canal

1924 Mahatma Gandhi , pacifist & religious leader, released from jail

• 1938 Du Pont begins commercial production of nylon toothbrush bristles

Anti-aircraft guns and spotlights comb the sky above Los Angeles during the rumored Japanese attack                                                        

1942 The “Battle of Los Angeles” takes place, a series of anti-aircraft engagements over the city in response to a rumored but false Japanese attack. It would last until the morning of the following day.
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1981 Britain’s Prince Charles announces engagement to Lady Diana Spencer

• 1983 A special commission of the U.S. Congress releases a report that condemns the
  

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  practice of Japanese internment during World War II.

• 1989 150 million year old fossil egg found in Utah with a fossilized dinosaur embryo inside, the oldest dinosaur egg yet found in the Northern Hemisphere

• 1997 Qatar inaugurates the world’s largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) exporting facility and formally launches Qatar Liquefied Gas Co.

• 2014 A 4.4 billion-year-old Crystal is discovered to be the oldest known fragment from the earth’s crust

• 2016 Oldest Muslim graves in Europe, from the 8th century, identified at a buriel site in Nimes, France

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