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| 0532 | Nika Riots in Constantinople: The Nika Revolt of 532 started during a chariot race at the Hippodrome and led to the worst bloodbath the city has ever seen, burning much (including Aya Sofya) to the ground and killing 30,000 people.
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| 1842 | A British army doctor reaches the British sentry post at Jalalabad, Afghanistan, the lone survivor of a 16,000-strong Anglo-Indian expeditionary force that was massacred in its retreat from Kabul.
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| 1846 | The U.S.-Mexican war begins as a result of the U.S. annexing Texas and other Southwest real estate.
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| 1966 | Robert C. Weaver became the first black Cabinet member as he was appointed Secretary of Housing and Urban Development by President Lyndon B. Johnson (D).
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| 1971 | The "LEAD-BASED PAINT POISONING PREVENTION ACT", P.L. 91-695, signed into law by Nixon (R). This allegedly beneficial law -- based on junk-science, see "Getting the Lead Out" by Robert A. Levy -- has been very beneficial in providing a large number of jobs and huge amount of tax dollars to the "paint removal" industry -- never mind that research has shown (according to Atlantic, Dec. 1995) that a major source of lead poisoning comes from the removal process itself and that sources other than interior paint may predominate, anyway.
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| 1998 | Linda Tripp, a former Pentagon employee, meets with Monica Lewinsky while wearing a secret listening device and records a conversation concerning Lewinsky's 1995 alleged affair with President Clinton, which she later turns over to the special prosecutor.
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