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Our on this day in history archives contain over 200,000 events, birthdays and deaths from 6,000 years of history. Here is a roundup of a few of them:

HISTORICAL EVENTS

1349 - 3,000 Jews killed in Black Death riots in Efurt Germany

1804 - French civil Code of Napoleon adopted

1857 - Earthquake hits Tokyo; about 107,000 die

1871 - Journalist Henry M Stanley begins his famous expedition to Africa

1917 - Loretta Walsh becomes US Navy's 1st female Petty Officer

1952 - Alan Freed presents Moondog Coronation Ball at old Cleveland Arena, 25,000 attend 1st rock & roll concert ever

1963 - Alcatraz federal penitentiary in SF Bay closed

1965 - Martin Luther King Jr. begins march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama

1975 - Ethiopia ends monarchy after 3000 years

1980 - On TV show Dallas, J.R. is shot

1998 - Good Friday Agreement signed in Northern Ireland.

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