| 1204 | The Fourth Crusade sacks Constantinople. | |
| 1606 | England adopts the Union Jack as its flag. | |
| 1782 | The British navy wins its only naval engagement against the colonists in the American Revolution at the Battle of Saints, off Dominica. | |
| 1811 | The first colonists arrive at Cape Disappointment, Washington. | |
| 1927 | The British Cabinet comes out in favor of voting rights for women. | |
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| 1945 | President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies at Warm Spring, Georgia. Harry S. Truman becomes president. | |
| 1954 | Bill Haley records “Rock Around the Clock.” | |
| 1955 | Dr. Jonas Salk’s discovery of a polio vaccine is announced. The Origins of AIDS: A December 2015 Update http://www.aidsorigins.com/origins-aids-december-2015-update#sthash.HI5Jv6ko.uxfs via @sharethis |
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| 1961 | Soviet Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin becomes first man to orbit the Earth. | |
| 1963 | Police use dogs and cattle prods on peaceful civil rights demonstrators in Birmingham, Alabama. | |
| 1966 | Emmett Ashford becomes the first African-American major league umpire. | |
| 1983 | Harold Washington is elected the first black mayor of Chicago. Sisterhood ceiling: Are women really holding each other back in the workplace? | via @TeleWonderWomen http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/work/sisterhood-ceiling-are-women-really-holding-each-other-back-in-t/ |
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