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Pablo Ruiz Picasso – hiszpański malarz, rzeźbiarz, rysownik, grafik, ceramik oraz poeta, uznawany za jednego z najwybitn…

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On This Day

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1987
Mary Gaudron became the first woman to be appointed a justice of the High Court of Australia.
1976
Lockheed Corporation president Carl Kotchian admitted that the company had paid out approximately US$3 million in bribes to the office of Japanese prime minister Kakuei Tanaka.
1958
The aircraft carrying the Manchester United football team crashed while attempting to take off from Munich-Riem Airport in West Germany, killing 8 players and 23 people in total (news reel featured).
1951
A train derailed while crossing a temporary wooden trestle in Woodbridge, New Jersey, causing 85 deaths.
1922
Representatives from France, Italy, Japan, the United States, and the United Kingdom signed the Washington Naval Treaty (pictured), agreeing to limits on naval construction in the hopes of preventing an arms race.
1919
World War I: More than 65,000 workers in Seattle began a five-day general strike to gain higher wages after two years of wage controls in the United States.
1918
Conscientious objector Henry Firth died in a work camp on Dartmoor, England, triggering a strike over living conditions.
1865
Finland established its modern system of secular municipalities, separate from church parishes.
1862
Union forces earned one of their first important victories in the American Civil War at the Battle of Fort Henry in western Tennessee.
1820
The first ship of the American Colonization Society departed from New York for West Africa with 86 African-American emigrants aboard to found the colony of Liberia.

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