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| 1765 |
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The Stamp Act is passed, the first direct British tax on the American colonists. |
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| 1790 |
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Thomas Jefferson becomes the first U.S. Secretary of State. |
| 1794 |
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Congress passes laws prohibiting slave trade with foreign countries although slavery remains legal in the United States. |
| 1834 |
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Horace Greeley publishes New Yorker, a weekly literary and news magazine and forerunner of Harold Ross’ more successful The New Yorker. |
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| 1933 |
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a bill legalizing the sale and possession of beer and wine. |
| 1935 |
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Persia is renamed Iran. |
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| 1972 |
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The U.S. Senate passes the Equal Rights Amendment. The amendment fails to achieve ratification. |
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| 1599 |
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Sir Anthony Van Dyck, Flemish artist, the namesake of the beard style. |
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| 1908 |
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Louis L’Amour, American Western novelist. |
| 1923 |
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Marcel Marceau, French mime. |
| 1930 |
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Stephen Sondheim, American composer and lyricist (A Little Night Music, Passion). |
| 1948 |
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Andrew Lloyd Webber, British composer (The Phantom of the Opera, Cats) |
