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On This Day

10 events
2000
President Bill Clinton awarded the Medal of Honor to 22 Asian Americans, mostly from the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, for actions during World War II.
1973
The U.S. Supreme Court delivered its decision in the landmark case Miller v. California, establishing the Miller test for determining what is obscene material.
1957
Ellen Fairclough (pictured) became the first woman to be appointed to the cabinet of Canada.
1948
The Manchester Baby (replica pictured), the world's first stored-program computer, ran its first program.
1940
World War II: The main offensive of the unsuccessful Italian invasion of France began.
1921
Irish War of Independence: Most of the village of Knockcroghery in County Roscommon was burned by British forces.
1919
Admiral Ludwig von Reuter scuttled the German High Seas Fleet in Scapa Flow to prevent the ships from being seized and divided amongst the Allied Powers.
1919
During a general strike in Winnipeg, Canada, members of the Royal North-West Mounted Police attacked a crowd of strikers, armed with clubs and revolvers.
1898
In a bloodless event during the Spanish–American War, the United States captured Guam from Spain.
1890
Rudyard Kipling's poem Mandalay was published.

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