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Misc. History
1913 - Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" was found. It had been stolen on August 22, 1911.
1961 - Anna Mary Robertson Moses, "Grandma Moses," passed away at the age of 101.
1978 - The Philadelphia Mint began stamping the Susan B. Anthony U.S. dollar. The coin began circulation the following July.
1987 - U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz told reporters in Copenhagen, Denmark, that the Reagan administration would begin making funding requests for the proposed Star Wars defense system.
1991 - Five Central Asian republics of the Soviet Union agreed to join the new Commonwealth of Independent States.
| God grant that this is the work of the Communists. You are witnessing the beginning of a great new epoch in German history. This fire is the beginning. - German Chancellor Adolf Hitler while speaking to a foreign correspondent as the Reichstag burned, 1933. |
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