1991
Police brutality on tape
Rodney King's vicious beating by Los Angeles police officers was caught on videotape.
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1845
Florida became the 27th state in the United States.
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1875
Georges Bizet's opera Carmen debuted in Paris, to cool audience reception and panned by critics.
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1879
Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood became the first woman lawyer to be admitted to appear before the Supreme Court of the United States.
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1918
Germany, Austria, and Russia signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.
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1931
The "Star-Spangled Banner" was adopted as the national anthem.
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2000
Former dictator Augusto Pinochet returned to Chile after being detained in Britain on torture charges.
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2003
New embassies opened in Kenya and Tanzania, to replace those lost in the 1998 terrorist bombings.
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