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Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Today's Signifcant Events- History.Orb

Today's Significant Events

1460 - Wars of the Roses: Battle of Wakefield (Northern England), Duke of York killed and his forces soundly defeated by forces for King Henry VI
1703 - Tokyo hit by Earthquake; about 37,000 die
1922 - Soviet Union organized as a federation of RSFSR, Ukrainian SSR, Belorussian SSR & Transcaucasian SSR
1922 - Creation of the USSR formally proclaimed in Moscow from the Bolshoi Theatre
1924 - Astronomer Edwin Hubble formally announces existence of other galactic systems at meeting of the American Astronomical Society
1950 - Vietnam, Laos & Cambodia become Independent states in France Union

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