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June 20
Posted By : at 2009-02-12 10:38:54
University of Oxford receives its charter. 1756 - English garrison imprisoned in the Black Hole of Calcutta. 1789 - Deputies of the French Third Estate took the Tennis Court Oath 1819 - The US vessel Savannah arrives at Liverpool. She is the first steam-propelled vessel to cross the Atlantic, most of the journey was made under sail. 1837 - Queen Victoria succeeds to the British throne. 1863 - West Virginia is admitted as the 35th U.S. state. 1877 - Alexander Graham Bell installs world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton Ontario. 1919 - 150 die at the Teatro Yaguez fire, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. 1939 - Benny Goodman's Song School ends its radio series. 1948 - Toast of the Town, later The Ed Sullivan Show, debuts. 1956 - A Venezuelan Super-Constellation crashed
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