1953
Longest running TV special
The Academy Awards were first televised.
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1853
During the Taiping Rebellion in China, the rebels captured Nanking and renamed it T'en-ching (Heavenly Capital).
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1920
The United States Senate voted down signing the Treaty of Versailles for the second time.
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1931
Nevada state legislature legalized gambling.
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1996
Sarajevo became a united city again after four years when Moslem-Croat authorities took control of the last district held by Serbs.
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2003
Operation Iraqi Freedom is launched with air strikes on Baghdad, the beginning of the war with Iraq (March 20 in Iraq).
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