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1992 â After 30 seasons Johnny Carson hosted his penultimate episode and last featuring guests (Robin Williams and Bette Midler) of The Tonight Show.

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Posted: May 21, 2025 - 7:54am
1927 â Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.

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Posted: May 20, 2025 - 6:31am
1983 â First publications of the discovery of the HIV virus that causes AIDS in the journal Science by a team of French scientists including FranÃ§oise BarrÃ©-Sinoussi, Jean-Claude Chermann, and Luc Montagnier.

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Posted: May 20, 2025 - 6:30am
1964 â Discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation by Robert Woodrow Wilson and Arno Penzias.

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Posted: May 20, 2025 - 6:28am
1873 â Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a U.S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets.

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Posted: May 20, 2025 - 6:27am
1609 â Shakespeare's sonnets are first published in London, perhaps illicitly, by the publisher Thomas Thorpe.

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Posted: May 20, 2025 - 6:26am
1570 â Cartographer Abraham Ortelius issues Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas.

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1974 â Nuclear weapons testing: Under project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon becoming the sixth nation to do so.

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Posted: May 18, 2025 - 11:29am
1896 â The United States Supreme Court rules in Plessy v. Ferguson that the "separate but equal" doctrine is constitutional.

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Posted: May 17, 2025 - 7:08am
2004 â The first legal same-sex marriages in the U.S. are performed in the state of Massachusetts.

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Posted: May 17, 2025 - 7:07am
1990 â The General Assembly of the World Health Organization (WHO) eliminates homosexuality from the list of psychiatric diseases.

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Posted: May 17, 2025 - 7:05am
1954 â The United States Supreme Court hands down a unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, outlawing racial segregation in public schools.

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Posted: May 17, 2025 - 7:04am
1902 â Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.

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Posted: May 16, 2025 - 7:08am
1960 â Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser (a ruby laser), at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California.

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Posted: May 16, 2025 - 7:06am
1888 â Nikola Tesla delivers a lecture describing the equipment which will allow efficient generation and use of alternating currents to transmit electric power over long distances.

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Posted: May 15, 2025 - 6:34am
1957 â At Malden Island in the Pacific Ocean, Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb in Operation Grapple.

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Posted: May 14, 2025 - 7:28am
1973 â Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched.

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1961 â Civil rights movement: A white mob twice attacks a Freedom Riders bus near Anniston, Alabama, before fire-bombing the bus and attacking the civil rights protesters who flee the burning vehicle.

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