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#OnThisDay in 1985 the benefit concert Live Aid was held simultaneously at Wembley Stadium in London & JFK Stadium in Philadelphia; it drew an estimated 1.5 billion television viewers & raised millions of dollars for famine relief in Ethiopia. 📷Trinity Mirror/Mirrorpix/Alamy
Queen front man Freddie Mercury performing at the Live Aid concert at Wembley Stadium, London, England, July 13, 1985.
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In Chillicothe, Missouri, pre-sliced bread first went on sale #OnThisDay in 1928. The loaves, baked by a local company, were cut using a machine designed by Otto Rohwedder. 📷© David Dales/Dreamstime.com
Loaf of bread made from spelt wheat with sunflower seeds and lupin seeds
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The United States first issued the Susan B. Anthony dollar coin, making Anthony the first woman to be depicted on U.S. currency #OnThisDay in 1979. 📷History of Woman Suffrage Volume 1
Engraving of Susan B. Anthony
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First minted in 1869, the yen was adopted as Japan's official monetary unit #OnThisDay in 1871, when the government suspended the exchange of clan notes, money issued by feudal lords that had circulated since the 16th century. 📷Chochopk
Natsume Soseki, portrait on the 1,000-yen banknote from Japan.
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was established #OnThisDay in 1864 when 200 acres (81 hectares) of Confederate General Robert E. Lee's estate in Virginia—which had been seized by the U.S. government—was authorized for a national cemetery? 📷Hisham F. Ibrahim/Getty Images
Grave markers at Arlington National Cemetery, Washington, D.C. (photo dated 2010)
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Thurgood Marshall was nominated as justice to the U.S. Supreme Court by President Lyndon B. Johnson #OnThisDay in 1967; he became the Court's first African American member. 📷Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (neg. no. LC-USZC6-26)
Official portrait of the 1976 U.S. Supreme Court: Justice Thurgood Marshall
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Speaking about the Berlin Wall as he stood at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, U.S. President Ronald Reagan famously entreated the Soviet leader, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.” #OnThisDay in 1987. 📷National Archives, Washington, D.C
Photograph of President Ronald Reagan delivering his famous speech that challenged the Soviet Union to tear down the Berlin Wall, at the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin, June 12, 1987.
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American politician Jeannette Rankin, the first woman to be a member of the U.S. Congress (1917–19, 1941–43), was born #OnThisDay in 1880. 📷Library of Congress, Washington D.C. (2016821745)
Black and white photo of Miss Jeannette Rankin standing on a balcony
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Being found guilty of “certaine Detestable Arts called Witchcraft and Sorceries,” Bridget Bishop #OnThisDay in 1692 became the first person to be hanged during the Salem witch trials in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. 📷© North Wind Picture Archives
Salem Witch Trials - Trial for witchcraft at Salem, Massachusetts, 1692. Hand-colored engraving
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