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2017
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2012
François Hollande elected 24th President of France.
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2004
TV sitcom “Friends” airs season finale in 10th and final season.
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2002
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“Spider-Man” became the first movie to make more than $100 million in its first weekend.
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1997
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1994
Nelson Mandela and the ANC, finally confirmed winners in South Africa’s first post apartheid election.
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1957
U.S. Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his book “Profiles in Courage”.
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1937
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1915
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1910
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1903
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1889
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1840
World’s first adhesive postage stamp, the “Penny Black”, is first used in Great Britain.
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1682
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