50 years ago today, US President Gerald Ford signed the Copyright Act of 1976 into law. It introduced automatic copyright (no registration prerequisite) and extended the duration to life plus 50 years
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100 years ago today, prime ministers of the Dominions of the British Empire met in London to begin the month-long 1926 Imperial Conference. They adopted the term "Commonwealth of Nations" there.
1010 years ago today, a Danish army led by Cnut defeated an English army led by Edmund Ironside in the Battle of Assandun.
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175 years ago today, Herman Melville's Moby-Dick was first published
65 years ago today, childhood friends Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, having not seen each other since Jagger moved seven years prior, met by chance on Platform 2 at Dartford railway station in Kent.
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Eight years ago today, recreational cannabis became legal in Canada
64 years ago today, in Guayaquil, Ecuador, Michael Craig Judge was born. His co-creations include Beavis and Butt-Head, King of the Hill, Silicon Valley, Office Space, and Idiocracy
65 years ago today, police led by Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon massacred dozens (possibly hundreds) of Algerians protesting in Paris. The French government acknowledged 40 killed, 37 years later.
167 years ago today, abolitionist John Brown led 23 men on a raid of the Harpers Ferry Armory. It resulted in 19 of them being killed, but also galvanized both sides and helped to spark the Civil War.
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60 years ago today, after decades of canceled plans, and finally five years of construction, Montreal's rubber-tired underground rapid transit system (Métro de Montréal) began operation.
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960 years ago today, in the first battle of the Norman Conquest, William the Conqueror defeated the last Anglo-Saxon king of England, Harold Godwinson, in the Battle of Hastings
35 years ago today, Star Trek: The Next Generation 5x04 Silicon Avatar first aired. It featured a powerful warp-capable life form called the Crystalline Entity which resembled a giant snowflake.
145 years ago today in Paris, Eliezer Ben Yehuda and two friends had what is thought to be the first conversation in modern Hebrew
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80 years ago today, France had a constitutional referendum in which 53% of voters (with 68% turnout) approved the constitution of the French Fourth Republic. It would last for 12 years.
62 years ago today, the Soviet Union launched Voskhod 1. It was the first human spaceflight to carry more than one person, and the first without pressure suits. It completed 16 orbits.
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155 years ago today, in British India the first "Criminal Tribes Act" was enacted. It criminalized entire communities by designating them and their members as habitual criminals.
52 years ago today, the final episode of Star Trek: The Animated Series aired
15 years ago today, Dennis Ritchie died. At Bell Labs in the early 1970s he created the C programming language and was one of the creators of the UNIX operating system. Both remain ubiquitous today.
125 years ago today, US President Theodore Roosevelt issued an executive order officially renaming the "Executive Mansion" to "The White House"
55 years ago today, the Shah of Iran's "2,500-year celebration of the Persian Empire" began.
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