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🚀 Time Machine
-1520
Martin Luther publicly burned Pope Leo X's papal bull 'Exsurge Domine', which demanded he retract his writings.
-1684
Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity was presented to the Royal Society by Edmond Halley.
-1690
The Massachusetts Bay Colony issued the first paper currency in the Western Hemisphere.
-1799
The metric system was first adopted in France.
-1898
The Treaty of Paris, signed in France, ended the Spanish-American War and gave the USA its first overseas empire.
-1901
Nobel Prizes were first awarded in Stockholm, Sweden, for physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and peace.
-1903
Marie and Pierre Curie won the Nobel Prize for their work with radium.
-1920
President Woodrow Wilson received the Nobel Peace Prize for ending World War I and creating the League of Nations.
-1962
"Lawrence of Arabia," starring Peter O'Toole, based on T. E. Lawrence's life, premiered. (Best Picture Oscar 1963)
-1964
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. received the Nobel Peace Prize.
-2009
James Cameron's 3-D science-fiction epic Avatar makes its world premiere in London.
-2016
The Nobel Prize for Literature is awarded to Bob Dylan in Stockholm, Sweden; he does not attend.
📸 Snapshot
Benito Mussolini's mug shot taken on June 20, 1903 in Bern, Switzerland
🗨️ Final Words
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