1968
911 debuts
The country's first 911 phone system went into service in Haleyville, Ala.
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1804
U.S. frigate Philadelphia, captured and held by Barbary pirates at Tripoli during the Tripolitan War, was set fire to and destroyed by a small group of men led by Stephen Decatur.
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1918
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1923
The tomb of King Tutankhamen, discovered in 1922, was opened.
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1937
Nylon was patented.
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1959
Fidel Castro became the leader of Cuba after having ousted the right-wing dictator Fulgencio Batista.
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1999
Turkish commandos captured Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan in Kenya, sparking seizures of embassies in Europe by Kurds.
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