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1676 AD

Polish-Ottoman War ends.

1989 AD

Berlin Wall is torn down and communist rule ends in East Germany.

A trial to determine the constitutionality of same-sex marriage in the United States was held in California.

Hollingsworth v. Perry

Monday, 11 January 2010

Source: Wikipedia

A trial to determine the constitutionality of same-sex marriage in the United States was held in California.

1500 AD

Ball bearing invented by Leonardo Da Vinci together with flying machines, including a helicopter, the first mechanical calculator and one of the first programmable robots.

1991 AD

The Soviet Union collapses. NATO gets involved in Yugoslavia.

2500 BC

First written legal codes — The Code of Hammurabi.

1928 AD

Penicillin is discovered on accident by Alexander Flemming.

6000 BC

First beer is brewed from grain in the Near East.

1098 AD

Crusaders defeat the Saracens at Antioch.

1779 AD

First steam powered mills automate the weaving process.

1965 AD

Britain abolishes the death penalty for murder.

1050 BC

Israel is invaded and defeated by the Philistines.

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