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Black Eagle Silver Certificate
- ... that between 1899 and 1923 the United States government issued 3,604,239,600 one-dollar Black Eagle Silver Certificates (example pictured)?
- ... that although J1407b eclipsed V1400 Centauri in 2007, nobody noticed for over three years?
- ... that in order to attend breakdancing classes as a child, future Olympian Amir Zakirov had to give up eating lunch?
- ... that The Book of Virtues inspired PBS's first animated primetime series?
- ... that one researcher found that nearly a third of the people cancelled over antisemitism allegations in Germany have been Jews?
- ... that plans for a statue of Dirk Nowitzki to have three basketballs were scrapped?
- ... that during the writing of El Eternauta: segunda parte, Héctor Germán Oesterheld became victim of an enforced disappearance?
- ... that arguments in favor of a Palestinian right of armed resistance are often based on Article 1(4) of Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions?
- ... that a magical inanimate dog may have been a taxidermy dog, an automaton, or a metaphor?
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- Amid widespread protests, Mexico ratifies constitutional changes that will see the federal judiciary chosen by popular vote.
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On this day
François Duvalier
1236 – Livonian Crusade: The Livonian Brothers of the Sword were soundly defeated by pagan Samogitian and Semigallian troops at the Battle of Saule.
1789 – The office of United States Postmaster General was formally established.
1957 – François Duvalier (pictured), nicknamed Papa Doc, was elected President of Haiti as a populist before consolidating power and ruling as a dictator for the rest of his life.
2003 – Dolphin, the first emulator for the GameCube that could run commercial video games, was released.
2013 – Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: All Saints Church in Peshawar, Pakistan, was attacked by two suicide bombers who killed 127 people.
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Ice Box Chamberlain (d. 1929)
Florence Merriam Bailey (d. 1948)
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