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How 12 American presidents rank meeting Queen Elizabeth II
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Everything you really need to know about the Renaissance
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Lunar New Year celebrations worldwide mark the Spring Festival
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Phoenician DNA reveals the true fate of the Biblical Canaanites
Andrew Jackson’s real legacy is a giant block of cheese
The insanely ancient history of Checkers
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This lost city was the Vegas of Ancient Rome
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Lunar New Year celebrations worldwide mark the Spring Festival
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January 21, 1793: King Louis XVI is Executed by Guillotine
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January 20, 1801: John Marshall becomes the Chief Justice of the United States
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January 19, 1981: Muhammad Ali prevents someone from taking their own life
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January 18, 1980: Pink Floyd’s ‘The Wall’ tops the US charts
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January 17, 1917: United States purchases the Virgin Islands
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January 16, 1581: England legally bans Catholicism
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January 15, 1870: The Democrat donkey appears in print for the first time
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January 14, 1967: The Human Be-In kicks off in San Francisco, marking the beginning of the “Summer of Love”
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January 13, 1968: Johnny Cash delivers famous performance inside Folsom State Prison
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January 12, 1998: Nineteen European countries jointly ban human cloning
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January 10, 1776: Thomas Paine publishes ‘Common Sense’
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January 8, 1964: Lyndon B. Johnson declares “War on Poverty”
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January 4, 1958: Sir Edmund Hillary travels to the South Pole
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January 3, 1521: Martin Luther is excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church
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January 2, 1903: Theodore Roosevelt backs the first black postmaster
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January 1, 1788: Quakers in PA emancipate their slaves
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December 30, 1916: Rasputin (finally) dies
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